(October 22, 2013 at 6:50 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:(October 22, 2013 at 5:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There is only one significant problem with the variant of TF which Ehrman asserts.This is an absurd standard that no historian accepts; we do not have the original writings of Julius Caesar, Tacitus, or Suetonius either.
IT DOES NOT EXIST.
You've missed Min's point. The "partially authentic" TF, the part that "Josephus likely would have written", is all hypothetical, purely borne in the imaginations of those who argue for limited contamination. It's every bit as hypothetical as the "Q" document. We have no earlier copy. We have no earlier quotation of said earlier copy. We just have the bare assertions about an imagined document. This does not meet the burden of proof.
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