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Barnabas 15.9 (translation by B. Ehrman in the Loeb edition): Therefore also we celebrate the eighth day with gladness, for on it Jesus arose from the dead, and appeared, and ascended into heaven [ ἐν ᾗ καὶ ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀνέστη ἐκ νεκρῶν καὶ φανερωθεὶς ἀνέβη εἰς οὐρανοίς ]. Granted that the eighth day i...

The phrase I always found most puzzling in Eusebius' quotation is "ὡς ἔφην". The quotation (direct or indirect?) is framed by two statements of Eusebius: The voice of Eusebius: : 14 And in his own writing he [Papias] also hands down other accounts of the aforementioned Aristion of the wor...

Doesn't this really only tell us that Papias thought Mark (or the author of gMark) was an interpreter of Peter? His opinion may have been based on his interpretation of that which he had heard verbally in interviews with those who purported to have some personal knowledge of these matters, but he ma...

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especially
http://www.imaanstar.com/hadith.php

While the site looks interesting, the download involves an exe file, which is a bit dangerous. It can load all sorts of malware.

Sorry, must pass ...

Does anybody any good resources on the status of office holders in the early church and who and how many were slaves? I seem to remember hearing this as well. Generally, people who were educated were either of the elite (wealthy) class, about 1%-2% of the population in those days, OR retainers of t...

A little story about military vehicles. In WW2 or its lead-up, the US military encountered the prospect or actuality of fighting going on in old cities of Europe where the width of a street was about half of what we consider norbal* here in the USA (and I assume many other places where the towns and...

What happened in the late third century? It was late for the party and got left behind. I've seen dates for the final edited forms of the Talmud (not the Mishnah) between 4th & 7th centuries, depending on whether you refer to the Babylonian Talmud or the Talmud of Jerusalem. The Babli, IIRC, wa...

Good point. I too tend to think that Luke-Acts postdates Josephus. Yes, the author of Luke-Acts knew about Josephus, but only his 'Wars', and not his 'Antiquities': http://historical-jesus.info/58.html http://historical-jesus.info/59.html Both gMark and gMatthew have Herodias married to Philip prio...

What do members think of E. P. Sanders' The tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1969)? My recollection is that there was about as much evidence of shortening of accounts as lengthening. Are we just looking at examples, regardless of whether we want them to be shortened or l...

Hawkins inspired much of my work on the synoptic problem. I have my own slightly modified version of his synoptic vocabulary tables on my website: http://www.textexcavation.com/synopticvocabulary.html . Was this based on the original edition, or the revised 2nd edition of 1909? Hawkins also expande...