(June 22, 2012 at 11:48 am)Minimalist Wrote: That's a long way from saying that Josephus wrote it, though.
BTW, whoever wrote "Luke" did not pay enough attention to Josephus. He fucked up the whole bit about the political situation in Galilee/Judaea between the death of Herod the Great and the appointment of Herod Agrippa I as king.
"Luke" has a family of Galileans going to Judaea to participate in a census in another country at that time. If he copied from Josephus there is no way he makes that mistake.
I agree. Was Herod Agrippa ever a king? Remember, that "Luke" says that he studied many manuscripts to arrive at his account, which certainly does not imply that he studied them carefully, even though this is his/her claim.
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