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. When Jesus says " Doubtless you will tell me ...whatever we have heard done at Capharnaum ...'” -- how can Jesus be so doubtless that they will mention Capharnaum--and not Sepphoris, or Tiberias, or even Chorazin and Bethsaida, which (later in the gospel) Jesus explicitly mentions performing...

Giuseppe -- and maybe consider reading the NT letter of Hebrews as an apologia of Jesus supporters to having an Aaronic-ancestry claim discredited and gone? indeed Hebrews talks about Jesus entering in the heaven as a celestial high priest. And in Hegesippus's legend, James the Just seems to be inv...

But in Luke 4, Jesus returns from his temptation in the wilderness, and goes directly to Nazara. So when Jesus says: "And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Caphernaum.’” It's puzzling, because Jesus has never been to Caphernum yet. Does that count a...

NOTA BENE: I don't mean to discuss in this thread with the various historicists who deny the existence of deniers in the Antiquity. I see that "Trypho" ( Dialogue 8) is reporting an accusation about a chronological sequence in the process of acceptance of the historicist belief: But the C...

It seems that Josephus is describing an event dating back to the period when he was on the side of the rebels (hence: at least officially, with Jesus ben Sapphat). Therefore the idea that Jesus ben Sapphat was the Jesus who had sent physicians to heal him on his request becomes even more plausible: ...

There are two clues to an apology to explain why Jesus (ben Sapphat) couldn't go directly to visit the slave of the centurion: the reader is reassured about the centurion being a good guy: "This man deserves to have you do this, because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue." ......

When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum . There a centurion's servant , whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. Whe...

Given this original account in Josephus (following the Greg's hypothesis), not only the victim of Ananus survives, but he was made high priest in the place of Ananus : And now Caesar, upon hearing the death of Festus, sent Albinus into Judea, as procurator. But the king deprived Joseph of the high p...

There was no Christians. It was a fresh idea to find human incarnation of the God as a mere man. Not king but mere man.απλός άνθρωπος. Resuming: the need of finding a human incarnation of the God (a Messiah?) moved some writers of a sect/school of the Diaspora to find a good stunt double in Ant., j...

Before the finding of a such man in Ant., what did the Christians believe that Jesus was?