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neilgodfrey wrote:Anything to help end the interminable war between the big-enders and the little-enders.

I didn't know you were a programmer, Neil!
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In his introduction to The Jewish War Josephus writes (I:15): Indeed, a historian who writes of events that have not previously been recorded, and about events of his own time, should serve as a model and is worthy of the highest praise. Continuing... Josephus, War... , Preface: "But for some ...

How'za 'bout a Transvalued Story from Alexander Jannaeus and the soon to be Queen Salome?

I don't dismiss your work, Bernard...

At best it's an open question whether or not the Josephan writer had anything to do with early christian origins MH, I'm not raggin' on you here. You've been pretty good lately. 8-) 1. Will someone, anyone , look at these 2 entries and tell me that they carry the feeling of Objective Truth? - "...

Here the writer shifts from using synedrion, a Jewish technical term for Sanhedrin rendered in Greek, to the more common bouleutes ("council member"), from the Greek word boule, which any Greek-speaker would recognize as a ruling council . John 3: 1 (RSV): [1] Now there was a man of the P...

MrMacSon asks how Josephus could have recorded that "Long Speech" of Agrippa in War, 2, 16. Answer: He made it up. I stated, in agreement with Outhouse and Maryhelena, that the Hasmoneans and the Hellenists were all over the place in both Josephus and the NT, respectively. So...where are t...

The problem here is that Israelites were already taxed very hard to the point of strangulation, Sepphoris and Tiberius and the Temple left the elite extorting everything they could to the point of hunger and starvation. All that tax money was feeding Roman power, Israel was forced to feed it. Add a...

I think Matt 17: 25-26 may be referring to changes in the Fiscus Judaicus: “What do you think, Simon?” he [Jesus] asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes —from their own children or from others?” “From others,” Peter answered. “Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to...

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