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Eusebius, Church History 3.33: [/b] 'Eusebius, Church History 3.33: [/b] 1 So great a persecution was at that time opened against us in many places that Plinius Secundus, one of the most noted of governors, being disturbed by the great number of martyrs, communicated with the emperor concerning the...

"Tribe of Christians may well be anachronistic for the time of Josephus. It is, however, doubtful whether it is a genuinely Eusebian phrase. Eusebius only uses the phrase when quoting or paraphrasing the Greek translation of the Pliny-Trajan correspondence about Christians. I can only find &qu...

Cited ... Wikipedia : Astronomical objects [edit] In 1614, German astronomer Johannes Kepler determined that a series of three conjunctions of the planets Jupiter and Saturn occurred in the year 7 BC. Although conjunctions were important in astrology, Kepler was not thinking in astrological terms. ...

2. His discussion of the TF. He claims that "several elements in the passage are distinctively Josephan in their style and phrasing.". But I'm pretty sure that our fellow board-member Ken Olson has shown that most of the elements he quotes are found in the writings of Eusebius (I'm 100% c...

beo, I don't own a copy of Schiffman's book, but I am going to guess that the rhetorical question "Should we be using English translations of the Greek Bible , instead of the modified masoretic versions of around the eighth century?" is yours and not Schiffman's. There's a book out, The De...

Thank you DH. Where did you find this translation?, please Many will go frantically, but knowledge will increase greatly The Septuagint translation is not like the one translated by Jews, Should we use the " Old Greek translation made by Jews"? Should the Old Greek translation made by Jew...

Wonderful,

Oh my! I appear to have edited my original reply to ficino, and obliterated it into the ether.

So .... refer to above for a more substantial reply than the original one was anyways.

DCH

I will hunt down the descriptions of the process of publishing given by David Trobisch (on editing collections of one's letters) and perhaps Wayne Meeks (who seems to equate the process of upper crust Roman types as an analogue to publication of the books of the NT, which I think is a stretch, but ...

Several contemporary translations of a simple verse, Daniel 12:4 which was translated by teams of reputable translators: [Some say "knowledge will be increased" and some say that "unrighteousness will be increased"] Could anyone claim that their particular translation is the rig...

There is a reason why pseudepigraphical books (books written in the name of some legendary person of long past times) use cryptic language. They are trying to "explain" how the work (or sources supposedly collected) had been so long unknown: the significance of the cryptic language was onl...