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LC, above, in part: "If we accept the received tradition wouldn't this have been one or more of the bishops?" SG: But you don't accept the received tradition! And even if you did, did all obey this unspecified bishop or group of bishops? And was strict scribal practice an early and unifyin...

Notice that Niels [not Nils, a typo in the above post] Peter Lemche in that review misstated the very title of the book that he was reviewing in Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, where he is Editor-in-Chief. The real title is Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal but ...

Do you consider any of these autographs?
If yes, can autographs mislead?

Or it could be figurative for celibate.

added:
Why would a supposed translator translate a word meaning believers as eunuchs?

Processes of canonization involve including and excluding works. Some excluded works are called apocrypha, written both before and after various canonization stages. In some of the Christian cases (plural) such processes happened in stages, with some acceptances of decisions shared or not shared by ...

LC, I disagree, again, but instead of pursuing that now, perhaps let me ask you a question:

Can you give several examples of ancient manuscripts that you regard as extremely-reliable "primary sources"?

I wrote that it is possible that some (small?) NT portions--but most certainly not all--were written in a Semitic language. Not saying it is proven. LC seems to favor (historical) suppression of other texts, but not in this case? What would the above writers--whether or not they were all misinformed...

Is it possible to mistranslate Greek into English?

Which is more probable about the *individual* letters of Paul:
a) that they were scrolls
or
b) that they were bound codices?

[This question is about the time before such letters were collected in codex-form.]

It is a fair question whether *portions* of the NT were first written in Aramaic (or in Hebrew).
But the *whole* NT? Not really.
For example, the Epistle to Philemon, mentioned above, would most probably originally have been written in Greek.