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Here is an example I pulled from Bibleworks and an online site at http://www.biblestudytools.com/history/flavius-josephus/antiquities-jews/ : JOS Antiquities of the Jews 1 [/b] Book 1: [/b] . From The Creation To The Death Of Isaac (3,833 Years) Προοίμιον περὶ τῆς ὅλης πραγματείας . Τάδε ἔνεστιν ἐν ...

I ultimately come down in favor of seeing the summaries (and any 'omissions') as useless to establishing anything about the absence of anything in the Antiquties' text, and I think that does hold... unless and until someone could show that they are not authorial and also not Jewish but rather Chris...

My first Bible (the NAB), with fairly mainstream critical notes, did gloss here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/mk/15:21#49015021-1 The precise naming of Simon and his sons is probably due to their being known among early Christian believers to whom Mark addressed his gospel . Hmmm ... There is somethi...

I'm not sure I follow your Julian date for the 1 Nisan that fell in 30 CE. Parker & Dubberstein (1956) calculate a new moon for this month on or before March 25. Their reconstruction of the Babylonian calendar uses their interpretation of the standard 19yr intercalation cycle that is supposedly...

In order to keep feasts on the same day of the week, intercalation must occur in multiples of seven days. A simple crude solution is to add an extra week every six years. The Vermes quote I gave above suggesting 30CE as a good time for the virtual crucifixion because of the full moon on April 8th -...

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I too must search again to make sure I had my translation right, that is Eusebius comment on Hegesippus about the death of James the Just and the Door to Jesus. John T, It is definitely "door of Jesus" due to the case of the Greek words του Ιησου. They are in the Genitive case which signi...

MrMacSon wrote:Are the names Ananus and Ananias interchangeable?

They would be variations of the same, or similar, Hebrew or Aramaic name, I'd think. But that is not enough to equate two specific folks.

DCH

To follow up on who the James (Jacob) was whose trial is depicted, here is a likely suspect: Wars of the Jews 4:235 and twenty thousand of them [i.e., Idumeans ] were put into battle array, and came to Jerusalem, under four commanders, *John, *and Jacob, the son of Sosas ; and besides these were *Si...

DCHindley's memory and research ability clearly surpasses mine in every way. So, it is with great hesitation that I would challenge DCHindley on anything he says, such as this: " This setting [stoning of James] is not that of a James the Just, brother of Jesus called Christ, but one of a gener...