Eusebius Dates Hegesippus to the "Generation After the Apostles"

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Re: Eusebius Dates Hegesippus to the "Generation After the Apostles"

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Secret Alias wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:44 pm Exactly. But remember that while Hegesippus/Josephus has obvious time markers for the 10th year of Antoninus (147 CE) the problem scholars have is that the succession list in Rome has been extended to late second century (i.e. Eleutherius). The bottom line is that any scholar who speaks about Hegesippus actually writing in the age associated with Eleutherius (or to the end of the succession list) isn't taking falsification seriously. Hegesippus published his work in 147 CE. The extended succession list is a second hand, a second addition - it is not Hegesippus.
Very interesting.

In my blog post, I suggested that the succession list belongs to Eusebius and that the quote ends before this list.
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