The First Century Void

[RoadRunner79]

You only show your ignorance on the subject... the version I'm speaking of, is an earlier Arabic version of Josephus. However, if you want to give the facts and reasons for what you are proposing. I'm all ears. Fanciful narratives, which ignore the facts; however, don't cut it. Neither does simply dismissing them because of the source.

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It's all well and good to assert that there are 7 authentic pauline epistles except we know they have been tampered with.

http://vridar.org/2017/05/26/why-many-in...ry-likely/

William Walker, Jr’s conclusion, then, is that

But, perhaps even worse....

https://www.umass.edu/wsp/alpha/texts/pa...tions.html

This notes the detected interpolations but the old adage "when one lie is detected a thousand must be suspected" comes into play.

Where does the "authentic" part come in?

From you quote, it seems to be assumed from the start