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Peter Kirby asked: Would you consider it plausible that "the Testimonium’s location in the Greek text [is] dependent on the work of Cassiodorus’ group"? I don't have much of anything new to add on this one. I think that the sixth century translation overseen by Cassiodorus is the last plau...

Andrew Criddle wrote: The Chronicle became available in Latin translation (c 379) a number of years earlier than the translation of the Ecclesiastical History. However, if Pseudo-Hegesippus wrote c 370 neither would have been available in Latin so this may not be relevant. The argument you're making...

MrMacSon wrote: It seems that "Jerome and Theophylat also commented and, according to Marcus Borg, they "preserve, apparently independently of Josephus, the memory that Pilate deposited images in the Temple" [c. the idea that the images on Pilate's troops' standards had only been plac...

Andrew, Thanks. Yes, both the point about Pilate bringing the images into the temple and the point about this incident being the first cause of the rebellion and turmoil of the Jews could have come from Eusebius' Chronicon. So I understand why one might think Pseudo-Hegesippus' knowledge of Eusebius...

Andrew, Okay. That's one of three points. Do you have an explanation for the other two? And is there a good reason to prefer the theory that Pseudo-Hegesippus would have known Origen's Commentary on Matthew in Greek or Latin translation over the theory that he would have known Eusebius' work. Isn't ...

In this long-dormant thread I had previously posted: Consider the following passage from Pseudo-Hegesippus:: And because it has been proposed by us to reveal the causes, by which the people of the Jews defected from the Roman empire and hastened destruction for themselves, the event indicates that P...

David Hindley wrote: "Cassidorus" was on another, longer, list I gleaned from either one of Whiston's excurses, or Eisler's Messiah Jesus": • TF allusion Cassidorus Hist. Tripartit. e Sozomeno. • John the Baptist in Ant 18 Cassidorus Chron. Alex. p. 514. • Josephus is one source about...

Wow! That was fast work. It seems to lack mention of Jews as well, either as followers or accusers.

I wrote:

I think there's another Greek witness in Leo the Wise, but I can't provide details at the moment.

That should have been Leo Grammaticus (historian), not Leo the Wise (emperor and writer). It may take a while to track down. I don't seem t have full access to the TLG at the moment.

Whoops! I wrote: (1) You might add the sixth century Latin translation of the Antiquities commissioned by Cassiodorus, which is what most later Latin writers (like Peter Comestor) used. David Levenson and Thomas Martin recently published a critical text of the Testimonium from the Latin Antiquities ...