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Originally Posted by Guest
He was a Jew, not a Christian. He had no skin in the game. He was also a citizen of Rome.
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And he wrote it 60 years later. It's like you writing NOW about something that happened in 1957...how accurate is it going to be? And besides...
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Josephus wrote all of his surviving works after his establishment in Rome (c. AD 71) under the patronage of the Flavian Emperor Vespasian.
As is common with ancient texts, however, there are no surviving extant manuscripts of Josephus' works that can be dated before the 11th century, and the oldest of these are all Greek minuscules, copied by Christian monks.[59] (
Jews did not preserve the writings of Josephus either because they considered him to be a traitor"
"Because manuscript transmission was done by hand-copying, typically by monastic scribes,
almost all ancient texts have been subject to both accidental and deliberate alterations, emendations (called interpolation) or elisions.
Both the lack of any original corroborating manuscript source outside the Christian tradition as well as the practice of Christian interpolation has led to the scholarly debate regarding the authenticity of Josephus' references to Jesus in his work."
"Flavius Josephus fully defected to the Roman side and was granted Roman citizenship"
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Originally Posted by Guest
The Mass was in Latin because Latin was the universal language until English took over. The Catholic Missal had the Latin on one side of the page and across was the local language. So yes, you could follow the Mass.
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It stayed in Latin a LOT longer than it had to.
You're quibbling over details...when the WHOLE thing is a lie. They lied in Latin, they lied in English...so what?