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Luke 21 (ESV) 24 " ... and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. 25 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, 26 people fa...

The Seminar on the Acts of the Apostles began deliberations in 2001, with the task of going through the canonical Acts of the Apostles from beginning to end and evaluating it for historical accuracy. The Acts Seminar met twice a year beginning in 2001 and concluded its work at the spring Westar mee...

Who did Paul persecute, then? Who did he write to in Rome? Where did the Christians in places like Alexandria and Ephesus come from (communities which were not founded by Paul)? Who were the Jerusalem pillars? Why did Paul say others saw Christ before he did? There is strong evidence, even by his o...

... It would extremely helpful for me to understand the correct meaning of בגיד הנשה׃ (???) (bə-ḡîḏ han-nā-šeh) in Genesis 32:32 . I have found the following possibilities 1) bə-ḡîḏ: sinew, nerve, muscle 2) han-nā-šeh: “of the hip”, “which shrank”, “benumbed” This page - https://he.wiktionary.org/w...

Exegesis and parsing other texts suggests Paul was near the end of his life in Rome in the early 60s, as summarized by Wikipedia - His final days spent in Rome "Acts recounts that on the way to Rome for his appeal as a Roman citizen to Caesar, Paul was shipwrecked on "Melita" (Malta),...

Not forgetting..... ;) Under Tiberius all was quiet . Tacitus (Hist. 5.9) Preceding that is "Antony gave the throne to Herod, and Augustus, after his victory, increased his power. After Herod's death, a certain Simon 32 assumed the name of king without waiting for Caesar's decision . He, howev...

As well as noting the crucifixion dates, Einhorn, in that paper, notes transposition of various historical events in Josephus texts, where they are dated 44 to 58-60 AD, into the Gospel texts in a ~26-36 AD setting. http://lenaeinhorn.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Jesus-and-the-Egyptian-Prophet-12.1...

. In Jesus & the “Egyptian Prophet” (2012) , Einhorn comments on mentions of 'Robbers' and Crucifixion - The word ”robbers” (λῃσταί, sing. λῃστής) is prevalent in the Gospels. Jesus was crucified with two λῃσταί; Barabbas is in John 18:40 described as a λῃστής; and when he is arrested, Jesus sa...

This is an interesting paper - JESUS AND THE “EGYPTIAN PROPHET” Lena Einhorn, PhD (Presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov.17-20, 2012) Einhorn describes a parallels between the New Testament and the works of Josephus where a number of events described in the wor...

Secret Alias wrote:But again we come back to the same difficulty. Was the gospel - as the Marcionites had it - a product of a man who identified himself as a second Moses (= THE apostle) ...

Jesus the son of Nun (in Aramaic (& Arabic), Nun = fish(?)).