mountainman

It is certainly anti-christian because in it Pontius Pilate informs the Jews that Jesus heals the lame and the bent, the withered and the blind and the paralytic, the dumb and them that were possessed, on the sabbath day by the power of the Graeco-Roman God of Healing Asclepius.

So you know my position and research on these early edict-like "acts of pilate" and the 4th century manuscript called the "acts of pilate", my notes are here

I was not aware of a Lucian source. Can you cite it. Thanks.

My position is that the text before us (i.e. "The Acts of Pilate" aka "The Gospel of Nicodemus") is not the "Christian Acts of Pilate" conjectured to have been written later in the 4th century, but the so-called "Pagan Acts of Pilate" that is cited and reported on by Eusebius. My claim is that we do not have to conjecture that there is another christian text, which is before us, with an earlier pagan text destroyed. The claim is that we are looking at the pagan text. The reference to Jesus healing by Asclepius sounds like the text was written by those who revered Asclepius, and according to the archaeology, there were many many temples, and networks of temples and shrines to this Healing God throughout the empire until Constantine destroyed them.

mountainman

Praise the War Lord.

You are as usual not addressing the content.

Toto

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