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I have. Thanks.

First of all: I was not the one who initiated this discussion. Second, these are the parallels between those segments: Two men named Ananias, who both lay claim to proceeds that rightfully belong to others, are both later killed with their next-of-kin (in one case the wife, in the other the brother)...

They are more ambiguous than the earlier ones only because they don't pertain to the era of the late forties and fifties, as all the earlier parallels did. But the more I read Josephus, the more I've seen that the parallels all seem to relate to eras and activities of the rebellion. But not only one...

Well, don't just glance. ... Look carefully. Statistically speaking, I think the chances of all those parallels being pure coincidence are slim.

To Frans: That Lazarus (Eleazar in Hebrew) is Eleazar son of Ananias is an interesting thought. As also Eleazar son of Ananias is a rebel leader in the Jewish war -- just like Eleazar son of Jairus -- it could of course be him. The replacement of "Lazarus" with "the daughter of Jairus...

Yes, do elaborate.

To Charles Wilson: I received your message, but I seem to be unable to reply directly, so I'll do it here (as it pertains to this thread). By "collapsing" the raising of Jairus' daughter with the raising of Lazarus, I mean combining, and extracting the common denominators. The two raisings...

I agree, the story must be political, sandwiched in, as it is, between the verses about the raising of the daughter of Jairus. The most fascinating aspect of this is that all three raisings of the dead performed by Jesus contain names associated with rebel leaders during the Jewish War. If one colla...