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a general lack of any slaves over age 30 in surviving tax rolls from Roman era Egypt. 100% manumission of slaves who live to 30? That's about as hard to fathom as the opposite, that no slave lived to be 30. Incidentally -- could this be an attempt to strive after status? https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

... first century human remains ... Actually, that's inaccurate too. Turns out that it was naive to accept the Telegraph's reporting without checking any other sources. The Telegraph's phrasing: "someone who died between AD72 and 416BC." However, every other source that I can find that is...

Κύνες πρὸς ἔμετον indeed!

+1 would read with incomprehension again

Disclaimer: I don't claim to know what Giuseppe is actually saying. So take it as a general comment. "Traditionally," Bruno Bauer and the Dutch Radical school held that the Pauline Epistles were written in the full light of knowledge of the Gospel tale. Combining the second-century Paul o...

This all reminds me of a book I read way back when about the remains of St. Peter in Rome. It seemed vaguely convincing at the time. I believe it was called "The Bones of St. Peter," published 1982, by John Evangelist Walsh. http://www.defendingthebride.com/ss/peter/Bones%20of%20St%20Peter...

It is a fascinating question? Sure. I've found a reference that is relevant, but someone else (if anyone) will have to track it down. The Passio S. Artemii, Philostorgius, and the dates of the invention and translations of the relics of Sts Andrew and Luke. Burgess, Richard W.. (2011) - In: Burgess...

Well this is quite possibly another subject you could enlighten me on. Pseudepigraphy (writings not by a person but purported to be by a person) number in the hundreds or even thousands (depending on your timeframe and the way you subdivide your pseudepigraphs). Now most scholars get very wibbly wo...

At the very least, it can tell us is that the first century Christian church regarded this man as important enough to protect and venerate his remains No, it can't. We don't know when exactly these remains began to be protected and venerated. I wasn't meaning that it does tell us, but that it possi...

...it otherwise suggests some fairly murky goings on and considerable dishonesty on the part of the ancient church. Do we really need to consider this artifact at all to reach that suggested conclusion? Where "ancient church" is defined as all called Christians during the first five centu...

At the very least, it can tell us is that the first century Christian church regarded this man as important enough to protect and venerate his remains No, it can't. We don't know when exactly these remains began to be protected and venerated. What it does not tell us "at the very least" i...