The footnote ascribes the comment to Pheme Perkins - a professor of....guess what?...."theology."
As noted elsewhere, theologians have a driving wish to push this horseshit into the first century when the plain fact of the matter is that we have no evidence at all for first century dates.
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That is "0," in the first century.
As in Not Fucking One! And precious few in the second.
As noted elsewhere, theologians have a driving wish to push this horseshit into the first century when the plain fact of the matter is that we have no evidence at all for first century dates.
That is "0," in the first century.
As in Not Fucking One! And precious few in the second.
