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1. Josephus, The Jewish War , Thackeray Translation, Loeb Classical Library, p. 327: "...And now the feast of unleavened bread, which the Jews call Passover, came round; it is an occasion for the contribution of the multitude of sacrifices, and a vast crowd streamed in from the country for the ...

Bottom line, history needs to be on the table in any attempt to research early Christian origins. Without a foothold in history interpretations are just blowing in the wind....keeping in mind that 'Josephus says so' is not a historical guarantee of anything at all..... His stories are just stories ...

And Josephus - based on ?. OK, I'll take a guess - pure speculation of course - Agrippa II. How do you do it, maryhelena? Secret Alias wrote a "...silly little book" [His words...] on A-II and HE didn't get it. Everyone, please look at "The Baptism of John" and "The Baptism...

YES!!! No one, as far as I know, has mapped out the various Paths followed by Vespasian and especially Antonius Primus and Mucianus, to see if the Time Lines are even possible. "Hastily fitting out a fleet of Liburnian ships he pursued Anicetus..." Oh, RILLY!!! Mucianus went to the local B...

MrMacSon -- A good suggestion. Some time ago, I speculated on something like this awhile back: Tacitus, Histories, Book 3: "All other nations were equally restless. A sudden outbreak had been excited in Pontus by a barbarian slave, who had before commanded the royal fleet. This was Anicetus, a ...

And just to keep history in mind in view of the OP ... Alexander Jannaeus did not bring down the Hasmonean dynasty.... That tragedy fell to Hyrancus and Antigonus. Keep Posting on this, maryhelena. Mebbe someday, someone here will realize that there was a History in the area before...before... JESU...

Pettinato, Archives of Ebla , p. 277: "Gen. 10:8-1 1 reports that the first warrior on earth was named Nimrod. For this name no satisfactory explanation has been found, but current opinion tends to favor a Mesopotamian origin of the personal name. The study of the patterns of Eblaite and Ugarit...

Note: I always look for little Clues in the Text and there is one here: Luke 13: 16 (RSV, emph. added.): [16] And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" So we have "...a daughter of Abraham" paired...

I left one out. Luke 13: 11 - 16 (RSV): [11] And there was a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. [12] And when Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity." [13] An...

To declare that gospel writers were secretly referring to the death (by which means is uncertain) of the last Hasmonean claimant, without evidence, is mere unsupported opinion, not history research. From a False Premise, anything follows. You know that SG. So it is here. There is plenty of Evidence...