In the OP a link was provided to a book by W.E.Barnes. In my above post I used this quote.
Josephus follows the TF with a story about Paulina and Mundus. A story referenced in the above quote.
For anyone interested in this story here is a link to a forum thread.
Did Josephus write the received Paulina and Mundus?
here
But surely, if it was a source Josephus used for his Paulina and Mundus story - why can't the same argument be made for the TF ie Josephus used a Christian source ?
If this is what Josephus did, use a Christian source, then all arguments against a core TF fall away.
I did suggest that the Paulina story is an allegory - but have not given more thought to it....perhaps I should.....
Fourthly, the place in which the supposed interpolation is set is unlikely to have been chosen by a Christian, for the “Testimony” is immediately followed by a disgraceful story of the connivance of the priests of the Egyptian goddess Isis in the betrayal of a noble Roman matron. Josephus as a worldling might have no objection to the juxta position, but would not a sense of decency prevent a Christian from fixing on just this place ?
Josephus follows the TF with a story about Paulina and Mundus. A story referenced in the above quote.
For anyone interested in this story here is a link to a forum thread.
Did Josephus write the received Paulina and Mundus?
here
Ken: Daniel Schwartz and other have proposed that the Paulina and Fulvia stories came from the same source, which concerned events in Rome, and Josephus inserted it into his narrative based on his main source which concerned Judea.
But surely, if it was a source Josephus used for his Paulina and Mundus story - why can't the same argument be made for the TF ie Josephus used a Christian source ?
If this is what Josephus did, use a Christian source, then all arguments against a core TF fall away.
I did suggest that the Paulina story is an allegory - but have not given more thought to it....perhaps I should.....
Statistics: Posted by maryhelena — Thu Nov 14, 2024 12:36 am