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The reason to speculate is simply the fact that they don't say 64 years, but they do say 40 years. Good luck with that. Absence any other information 40 years is the most likely correct time period. The account is too late and too legendary to be used for such precise "correct" answers.

For those of us who like to see chapter and verse with their citations... Numbers 24:17 ("but not near") Genesis 49:10 ("the one to whom it belongs") Deuteronomy 18:15 ("like me") It certainly is interesting that the author is using gemetria (if that's a sure conclusion...

It is also intriguing that 2Clement (with its frequent use of a non-canonical gospel) also seems to echo the "Man and Church" concept of the Valentinians (cf Irenaeus Adv Haer 1): Wherefore, brethren, if we do the will of God our Father, we shall be of the first Church, which is spiritual...

1. Justin Dialogue 128 "And that Christ being Lord, and God the Son of God, and appearing formerly in power as Man, and Angel, and in the glory of fire as at the bush, so also was manifested at the judgment executed on Sodom, has been demonstrated fully by what has been said." Then I repe...

Yes, thank you. I said that. But thank you.

A translation: http://www.avesta.org/mp/kz.html (1) provenance Sassanid Persia. (2) dating The details may not exactly be clear, except that the period AD 276-293 is suggested by the royal patron, Varahran II. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kartir (3) non-Zoroastrian heretics mentioned Includ...

However, I think that the temple authorities had the authority to rule on things pertaining to Judean ritual as it related to the temple. Yes, Virginia, there was a Sanhedrin. There may even have been some cases where somebody, a priest or even a HP, had transgressed a tenet sacred to the majority ...

The "Cambridge History" lots of information. part iv REGIONAL VARIETIES OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES 15 · From Jerusalem to the ends of the earth 295 margaret m. mitchell 16 · Overview: the geographical spread of Christianity 302 frank trombley 17· Asia Minor and Achaea 314...

Web page mentioning some of the places in the NT:

http://catholic-resources.org/Bible/NT_Geography.htm

A wee bit of syncretism is evident.

http://ns2.rsok.com/columcille_and_druids.html

http://www.jstor.org/stable/40558508