(June 17, 2017 at 11:24 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Not clear to me that Christians should want more hard copy/documentation from that early era. Don't they have enough problems as it is with Apostle Paul countermanding Jesus and hijacking the movement?
How can more information about that clusterfuck help ??
They are simply positive that there are first century writings out there.... in spite of the fact that it was largely the church itself, and the church in the middle ages not the early church, which determined what was saved and what was lost or simply not re-copied. There was no grand conspiracy here. If something was favorable to their cause they preserved it and if not they ignored it. Hence we get Photius' reading the history of Justus of Tiberias which covered the same time period as Josephus' works but because Photius noted that Justus did not mention the fucking godboy the work was allowed to vanish.
I suppose we should be grateful to those early xtian forgers who tried - miserably - to doctor up Josephus so that 'jesus' was there. Without that we probably would not have Josephus' work, either.
