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One more point on Josephus dlb
Submitted by bock on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 02:07.

Here is the report of Eusebius that predates the mss we debated.

 

When Pilate, on the accusation of our principal men, condemned him to the cross, those who had loved him in the beginning did not cease loving him.

 

This mirrors the longer Josephus Greek version, helping to show its age.

 

Jerome's  version is similar:

 

And when by the envy of our principal men, Pilate had condemned him to
the cross, yet notwithstanding those who had loved him at first
persevered, for he appeared to them alive on the third day, as the
oracles of the prophets had foretold many of these and other wonderful
things concerning him: and the sect of Christians so named from him are
not extinct to this day.

 

All of this predates the Arabic version and points to a kind of distribution for the age of this reading that inlcudes mention of Jewish involvement.

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