Ruby Gray
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I have read vast chunks of Josephus, and apart from the fact that, as a Pharisee, he was describing the religion of his fathers as already laid down in the Hebrew scriptures, the "parallels" with the Pauline writings do not jump out at me. There is nothing that would convince me Paul's letters and Josephus' works were penned by the same hand. One is a chronicler of the history of a religious people; the other is a spiritual teacher and evangelist.
Nor can I reconcile the anachronisms.
Paul was born possibly about 1 to 5 AD in Tarsus, Cilicia; he studied under the great teacher Gamaliel the grandson of Hillel, who are historically attested, and was executed by the Romans in about 68 AD.
Josephus was born about 38 AD in Jerusalem, and died early in the second century.
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I have read vast chunks of Josephus, and apart from the fact that, as a Pharisee, he was describing the religion of his fathers as already laid down in the Hebrew scriptures, the "parallels" with the Pauline writings do not jump out at me. There is nothing that would convince me Paul's letters and Josephus' works were penned by the same hand. One is a chronicler of the history of a religious people; the other is a spiritual teacher and evangelist.
Nor can I reconcile the anachronisms.
Paul was born possibly about 1 to 5 AD in Tarsus, Cilicia; he studied under the great teacher Gamaliel the grandson of Hillel, who are historically attested, and was executed by the Romans in about 68 AD.
Josephus was born about 38 AD in Jerusalem, and died early in the second century.
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