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Stephan Huller:

While I can't be sure that your comment was addressed to me, what is your basis for rejecting Kosiba/Kosba as a legitimate name?

A quick glance at a digitized manuscript suggests to me that it's a valid prospect:
http://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explor ... e/B-300494

Greetings John2, Thanks for your feedback. The statement in question within my post (i.e. neither the Hasmoneans nor the Herodians “were necessarily looked upon with favor by the rabbinate”) leans largely upon Josephus. The following citations appear to support my statement: For there was a certain ...

Two cents (for the Salvation Army)... Although I haven't looked closely at Eusebius' text, though I wonder whether the phrase "door of salvation" may qualify as a possible reading? Conceivably, during the process of the story's transmission the Aramaic phrase was misconstrued as a referenc...

Greetings, The following is my contribution in response to the original post. Hopefully you'll pardon my interruption if this message is landing in the middle of a sub-topic. דף צז,ב גמרא רבי נתן אומר מקרא זה נוקב ויורד עד תהום (חבקוק ב) כי עוד חזון למועד ויפח לקץ ולא יכזב אם יתמהמה חכה לו כי בא יבא...

"Barbarian hordes, Greek philosophers, and Roman politicians for many centuries tried to conquer Rome from the inside and from the outside" To maintain impartiality, perhaps you should also include the zealous Jewish pretender whose endorsement (via R. Akiva) remains an egg on the face of ...