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Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 14.487: ‹This destruction befell the city of Jerusalem when Marcus Agrippa and Caninius Gallus were consuls of Rome on the hundred eighty and fifth Olympiad, on the third month, on the solemnity of the fast as if a periodical revolution of calamities had returned s...

War of Varus In light of the following tabulations, the year of the War of Varus was in 1 CE, its episode shadowing the death of Herod the Great in March of that year. Gospel accounts record that Jesus Christ was born at the time of a taxation at Bethlehem, while Herod son of Antipater¹ was alive, a...

Josephus with those of his generation, were apparently acquainted with the need to socially distance, in order to avoid an inundation of sickness from the pestilences that circulated among the population. The Roman siege of Jerusalem at the time of the 70 CE Passover feast, caught up such a large p...

This has nothing to do with early Christian texts. It belongs on some other Board Josephus wrote early Christian texts. He wrote history too, somewhat relevant to the Christians of his generation. You could dispute that but you are outmatched by manuscriptal evidence. Instead you would have my comm...

Josephus with those of his generation, were apparently acquainted with the need to socially distance, in order to avoid an inundation of sickness from the pestilences that circulated among the population. The Roman siege of Jerusalem at the time of the 70 CE Passover feast, caught up such a large po...

Transition and Transmission. Here are the central Christian tenets shown with the predicates in Christian holy books as represented by the motifs transition and transmission. Transition. Christian scriptures predicate that we live amid a state of transition of the soul, from spiritual to material to...

For the Matthew's gospel first written in Hebrew case, as reasoned by William Cureton, his examination of antient works is found here: https://books.google.com.sg/books?redir_esc=y&id=4rlWUMJL5vYC&q=On+the+gospel+of+matthew#v=snippet&q=furnishes&f=false and https://archive.org/detail...

James, bishop of Jerusalem was charged with offences of the law by High Priest Ananus ben Ananus in A.D. 62 and brought before the Sanhedrim—Josephus Antiquities Book 20, Chapter 9.1: ‹and brought before them the brother of Jesus called the Christ, whose name was James›. Josephus' grammar utilizes h...

Identifying Mary The name Mary, an English adaptation for identities in the New Testament gospels, can be delineated into primary determinates of these three names: Mariam, Maria and Mariame. These three names are verifiable in multiple confirming inscriptions, as tabulated by Tal IIan: ILAN, T. (2...

'While I've heard of John Mark, I've never thought about him before, and now I'm curious to see what there is to see about him and let the chips fall where they may.' Giving a personage to an individual named 'John Mark' is divergent to the purpose of the John Mark passages in Acts. In Acts 12, whe...