StephenGoranson wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 7:14 am
There may have been more than one definition of Judaea. From a note (1997):
"The part of Judaea adjoining Syria is called Galilee, and that next to
Arabia and Egypt Peraea," according to Pliny N.H. V.70, who then listed the
ten toparchies within the area that *we today* usually think of as being
Judaea.
This raises the question of which sense of Judaea (the larger or
smaller area) is meant by various other ancient writers (and their
sources). For instance, when Gabinius, Governor of Syria from 57-55 BCE,
created five synhedria and installed an overseer (epimeletes) in each one,
Josephus refers to the epimeletes of Sepphoris, Galilee as a Judaean
epimeletes (Ant 14.127, 139). [....]
[Related: "Rereading Pliny on the Essenes:
Some Bibliographic Notes"]
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JW:
I think the underlying factor is
time. What geographical area was meant by "Judea" at different times
or specifically here not too far before or after the supposed Gospel time. In the context of the Gospel
narrative there is an important distinction between Judea and Galilee. Therefore, for a Gospeller/Manuscript to say
Nazareth was in Judea communicates to the reader that it was not in Galilee. Likewise for commentators commenting
within the context of the Gospels. On the other hand, before Jesus supposed time it was all part of Herod's Kingdom
and more importantly for our purposes here, after Jesus' supposed time, it was all referred to as Judea (sometimes).
So, for a commentator, not commenting within the context of the Gospels, and especially after Jesus' supposed time,
they may very well have said Nazareth was a town in Judea. It may also be an anachronism issue whereby Patristics
are commenting within the context of the Gospels but in their time there is no longer a legal distinction between Galilee
and Judea.
Joseph
J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel— than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has been but slightly modified, was that of the tail of a subdued dog, and it was not a letter but a character, standing for a Latin verb, jacere, "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape. This is the origin of the letter, as expounded by the renowned Dr. Jocolpus Bumer, of the University of Belgrade, who established his conclusions on the subject in a work of three quarto volumes and committed suicide on being reminded that the j in the Roman alphabet had originally no curl.
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