I think that the (even litterim) parallelisms detected by Adamczewski (see the first post of this thread), in addition to Josephus' status as the favourite of Vespasian (virtually making him the best "specialist" in Jewish matters), are too much specific to require a common source shared by both (Josephus and Tacitus) and not rather the Tacitus' direct dependance on Josephus.
Obviously this doesn't change the negative verdict on the TF.
Adamczewski on the Testimonium Taciteum confirming the authenticity of the Testimonium Flavianum
Re: Tacitus Christus/Chrestus, Christianos/Chrestianos
Kunigunde,Kunigunde Kreuzerin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 09, 2022 2:13 pmThere is one more thing. The manuscript is written in Beneventana. The Beneventan script has a specific ligature for the combination of the letters "ri". One can observe this in the words "christus" and "Tyberio" as opposed to the corrected word "chrestianos".
I can see that the supposed first I in Christianos looks suspiciously like an E (like the one in tibErius) with the top and the stroke connecting it to the subsequent S erased, and also that it does not look like the other examples of I in RI combinations. But do you have an opinion on what's going on with the R that precedes it? Are there other examples in the manuscript of an R looking like that (extending below the line)? It looks to me as though the corrector not only scrubbed out part of the E but put and additional vertical stroke through the R. But I can't come up with a good reason for the corrector to have done that.
Best,
Ken
PS The only reason I could think of was that the vertical stroke through the R was supposed to be an I like the second I in Christianos, and that the corrector accidentally put the stroke over the R instead of the E. But that would require us to hypothesize an awfully, awfully clumsy corrector.
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Re: Tacitus Christus/Chrestus, Christianos/Chrestianos
Hi Ken, it appears that it is a regular R when paired with an E. Here are two images of the words "crederetur" and "repressaque" from the same folio.
Re: Tacitus Christus/Chrestus, Christianos/Chrestianos
Sure does. Thanks!Kunigunde Kreuzerin wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 11:29 amHi Ken, it appears that it is a regular R when paired with an E. Here are two images of the words "crederetur" and "repressaque" from the same folio.
BeneventRE.jpg
Re: Tacitus Christus/Chrestus, Christianos/Chrestianos
Kunigunde... now that is doubly devastating.Kunigunde Kreuzerin wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 11:29 amHi Ken, it appears that it is a regular R when paired with an E. Here are two images of the words "crederetur" and "repressaque" from the same folio.
BeneventRE.jpg
Even triple perhaps, as it is clear that the correction was executed by someone unfamiliar with the script
It would seem that Ken's possible clumsy clumsy scribe had turned into a plausible clumsy one.
I don't know what has been written about the possible authenticity of this fragment, but half a page would have done!
Where do you get this info Kunigunde? It is absolutely top of the bill