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ENCYCLOPÆDIA IRANICA on Katir - http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kartir

eta: Peter K posted previously in this thread - http://www.earlywritings.com/forum/view ... 890#p58890

2015 BC & H thread with links about Kartir's Inscription (276-293 CE) - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1634

eta: Peter K posted previously in this thread - http://www.earlywritings.com/forum/view ... 890#p58890

Pilate as "Procurator", a title that did not exist in the 20s & 30s AD*, but did exist from the mid-40s* (starting with Cuspius Fadus) until 70 AD, adds some weight to the proposition that Annals 15.44 was originally about Nero and one of his procurators, and Tiberius and Pilate were s...

There are eight! parts to that long Livius article on Pilate. The end of the 2nd & all of the 3rd are interesting, particularly in relation to what Peter K says in his OP - Pilate's tenure of office was not typical, however, because the Syrian governor Lucius Aelius Lamia was absent ... For reas...

maryhelena wrote:
Daniel Schwartz: Studies in the Jewish Background of Christianity

• Pontius Pilate's Appointment to Office and the Chronology of Josephus' Antiquities, Books 18—20''
  
  ... the weight of evidence points to the earlier dating

Cheers.

... As demonstrated by Daniel Schwartz, Pilate was in Judea from 18 c.e. to 36/37 c.e. - approximately 19 or so years, an unusually long period of time. Livius says otherwise re Pilates starting year and tenure - Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor of Judaea from 26 CE to 36 CE; in this capacity,...

Peter's OP is quite interesting. Regarding - Firstly let it be said that there was a historical Pontius Pilate, as recorded in an inscription discovered in 1961 The partial inscription reads (conjectural letters in brackets):[3] [ DIS AUGUSTI ] S TIBERIÉUM [... PO ] NTIUS PILATUS [... PRAEF ] ECTUS ...

The last part of the passage - "in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular" - is Rome-centric Of course, it is Rome-centric: the passage deals with the fire in Rome and the ensuing persecution of Christians in Rome. I m...

It means the same thing. Cheers. That was what I was getting at. ... Romans, and all the supposed "authentic" Pauline epistles, was written a long time after this event, but written as if it hadn't happened yet. This is how "prophetic" writing works, and the "Paul" cha...

Being copied in Greek at a later date means little to the Hebrew origins of these cultures. Maurice Casey rises from the grave! I'm sure you have copies of the "Aramaic originals" to back up this claim. And why would this "stubborn Israelite culture" even allow the texts to be c...