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Giuseppe,

If we take the English translation of Julian I posted as the basis for discussion, what is your argument (premises, conclusion, etc.)?

It's probably this passage (from a reconstructed text of Julian's Against the Galileans ): But what great gift of this sort do the Hebrews boast of as bestowed on them by God, the Hebrews who have persuaded you to desert to them? If you had at any rate paid heed to their teachings, you would not hav...

Not that I know of.

Giuseppe wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:08 pm

Ken Olson wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:04 pm

Book VI begins in cols. 779-780.

do you mean 079-080 ? I don't find 779-780.

PG 33 is the volume ( 033 in the link), once you have the right volume, Book VI begins on columns 779-780 of that volume (Latin column/Greek column).

As to the quote reference, the book 6 of Against Julian is not available online. But I am sure that my source is good (p. 408 of the J.K.Watson's book Le christianisme avant Jésus-Christ , who quotes in turn Weill-Raynall, a very good mythicist). If you have the book, could you post a pic of the re...

As to the quote reference, the book 6 of Against Julian is not available online. But I am sure that my source is good (p. 408 of the J.K.Watson's book Le christianisme avant Jésus-Christ , who quotes in turn Weill-Raynall, a very good mythicist). If you have the book, could you post a pic of the re...

Note the curious implication: Ken Olson is wrong in considering Eusebius the forger of the Testimonium Flavianum , because otherwise Julian (who comes after Constantin) would have read it and he would have not said that Jesus was unknown to the writers of the Flavian era (and of the following age)....

Mark Goodacre's paper 'Why Not Matthew's Use of Luke?' has been posted online ... https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/gospel-reading-and-reception-in-early-christian-literature/why-not-matthews-use-of-luke/91A0019D111B42C98B9232B035FA30E7?fbclid=IwAR1zIieA-zsBAUHrmdxr8K09ThBi2YUUGh3VCNFVqr8rH6...

Mark Goodacre's paper 'Why Not Matthew's Use of Luke?' has been posted online. It is, unfortunately, not open access, but some may have online access through institutional affiliations. I don't know if the book in which it is published is available yet. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/gospe...

Joe Atwill expounds his theory on why Josephus included the Testimonium Flavianum and the story of Paulina and Decius Mundus on Jacob Berman's History Valley YouTube channel. (The episode is an hour and twelve minutes long). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qHP_IVJiAo&t=2786s His theory is found...