Are there really only two different datings of Jesus ?
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 12:02 pm
Under Pilate is one dating. Under Janneus is another. But there would be a third dating.
(source, my bold)
Lactantius, early 4th ce, quoted Sossonius Hierocles as saying Jesus commanded nine hundred robbers (Divine Institutes 5.3). That is transparently an ancient historian claiming that Jesus of the Christians was “Jesus, the brigand chief on the borderland of Ptolemais … with his force, which numbered eight hundred … band of brigands” (Vita 104-111). That Jesus fairly clearly is Jesus b. Saphat. Of course Sossonius could have been mistaken. But was he?
(source, my bold)