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Old 05-08-2007, 10:11 AM   #31
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More likely, it shows that Josephus is sometimes correct.
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I'm waiting for the personal diary that records his ordering of the "slaughtering of the innocents."
Maybe he has a stash of trophy toddler skulls!
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More likely, it shows that Josephus is sometimes correct.
Now if we can only get confirmation for the "armies in the clouds"....
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Now if we can only get confirmation for the "armies in the clouds"....
Tacitus confirms it (Histories 5.13.1). Does that count?

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Old 05-08-2007, 10:47 AM   #35
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Because it proves that everything written in the gospels is factual and true...
So the finding of Uruk should prove that the Epic of Gilgamesh is factual too, right?

I love this logic ...
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More likely, it shows that Josephus is sometimes correct.
It is a pity that Josephus did not write about Jesus, where he lived, was buried or resurrected, perhaps the archaeologists would have been able to find something.

Josephus wrote about Herod and John the Baptist, why in the world did he not write a single word about the Jesus of the NT?


I think the NTis correct when it claims that Joseph was the supposed earthly father of Jesus, they are possibly refering to Flavius Josephus, since it appears that it was from Josephus' works that Jesus was conceived.
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Tacitus confirms it (Histories 5.13.1). Does that count?

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Not exactly, but that does confirm how rumors spread even in the history books!

Thanks for that...
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Josephus wrote about Herod and John the Baptist, why in the world did he not write a single word about the Jesus of the NT?
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It seems that "aa..." likes to convince those who don't know better by leaving out crucial information, like Jesus is mentioned twice in Josephus, just that the passages are controversial to some.
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It seems that "aa..." likes to convince those who don't know better by leaving out crucial information, like Jesus is mentioned twice in Josephus, just that the passages are controversial to some.
Aren't they controversial to you?


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