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The most natural Greek syntactically would be τον Ιησου του λεγομενου χριστου αδελφον. The defining genitive is usually wedged between article and noun. For example, in 2.186 we get the sons of Hasmoneaus, των Άσαμωναιου παιδων. There are some good examples in 2:158, here's Aristobulus son of Herod ...

Peter Kirby wrote:Balderdash!

But, but that was deductive logic. It must be right.

If Antiquities of the Jews 20.9.1 was interpolated with the words "called the ANOINTED" [called the christ] then it can easily be seen that Jesus the brother of James was most likely the son of Damneus. You don't talk of someone by their full familial name as a secondary reference . It's ...

The use of 'christ' does not appear in the Greek of Josephus outside of these two references in Ant. 20.9.1 and Ant. 18.3.3 (both probably spurious). Josephus nowhere else chooses to use such language to refer to the appointing of a high priest (or, indeed, at all). I've tried to sell this fact for...

Ps. Sol. 8 15 He [god] brought him that is from the end of the earth, that attacks with strength; He declared war against Jerusalem, and against her land. 16 The princes of the land met him with joy: they said unto him: Blessed be thy way! Come, enter in peace. 17 They made the rough ways even, befo...

Plutarch, Pompey 79 3 Then, as they drew near the shore, Cornelia, together with his friends, stood on the trireme watching with great anxiety for the outcome, and began to take heart when she saw many of the king's people assembling at the landing as if to give him an honourable welcome. But at thi...

I am struck by the description of the destruction of Jerusalem: When the sinner waxed proud, with a battering-ram he cast down fortified walls, and Thou didst not restrain (him). Alien nations ascended Thine altar, they trampled (it) proudly with their sandals; Because the sons of Jerusalem had def...

Just out of curiosity, am I the only one who sees all of the text cited from Syriac sources in Stephan's o.p. as an unintelligible string of boxes interspersed with a few recognizable characters?

Question for big-brained ancient language people: would i be right in assuming that the occurrences of aramaic discussed are present both in the Leningrad Codex and the Dead Sea Scrolls? I don't know if big-headed and big-brained are synonymous, but on the DSS the fragments of Genesis found there l...

TedM wrote:

I have already pointed out that Paul gives no indication in Galatians that the Jerusalemites knew anything about Jesus,

IMO the entire book of Galatians is indication that the Jerusalemites knew a lot about Jesus,

...while never giving any indication.