Re: The Testimonium Flavianum Recensions
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 9:43 pm
The problem for the Zinner's and Jarek's view is that the textus receptus is very too much positive about Jesus, which is impossible for what I think is the strongest clue for the authenticity of a kernel.
Hence the Zinner's solution is that Josephus played as "the good policeman" in the Greek Antiquities and as the "bad policeman" in the Hebrew Antiquities. In this way he opens all an entire can of worms, i.e. the difficulty posed by the Slavonic text.
Hence a plausible solution is that the author of *Ev/Luke-Acts found a negative reference to Jesus in Josephus's Ant. 18 and replaced it with a passage resembling his own Emmaus narrative. In this way he would have made Josephus himself a half-insider as the disciples of Emmaus: aware of the great works of Jesus but still unaware of the his real divinity.
Hence the Zinner's solution is that Josephus played as "the good policeman" in the Greek Antiquities and as the "bad policeman" in the Hebrew Antiquities. In this way he opens all an entire can of worms, i.e. the difficulty posed by the Slavonic text.
Hence a plausible solution is that the author of *Ev/Luke-Acts found a negative reference to Jesus in Josephus's Ant. 18 and replaced it with a passage resembling his own Emmaus narrative. In this way he would have made Josephus himself a half-insider as the disciples of Emmaus: aware of the great works of Jesus but still unaware of the his real divinity.