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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
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Does "which was then subject to Christian interpolation" mean...?
Does "which was then subject to Christian interpolation" mean "the reference to the execution of Jesus by Pilate was an interpolation by Christian"? That is, Josephus actually never mentioned Jesus in his book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquities_of_the_Jews.
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The general scholarly view is that while the Testimonium Flavianum is most likely not authentic in its entirety, it is broadly agreed upon that it originally consisted of an authentic nucleus with a reference to the execution of Jesus by Pilate which was then subject to Christian interpolation.[5][6][7][8][9][10] Although the exact nature and extent of the Christian redaction remains unclear[11] there is broad consensus as to what the original text of the Testimonium by Josephus would have looked like.[9]
More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus
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The general scholarly view is that while the Testimonium Flavianum is most likely not authentic in its entirety, it is broadly agreed upon that it originally consisted of an authentic nucleus with a reference to the execution of Jesus by Pilate which was then subject to Christian interpolation.[5][6][7][8][9][10] Although the exact nature and extent of the Christian redaction remains unclear[11] there is broad consensus as to what the original text of the Testimonium by Josephus would have looked like.[9]
More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus
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The red clause refers to the nucleus.
- The red clause refers to the nucleus.
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Thanks. But since it has said it is Christian interpolation (false insertion that was not written by Josephus), how could the "nucleus" be authentic?
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NL888 Thanks. But since it has said it is Christian interpolation (false insertion that was not written by Josephus), how could the "nucleus" be authentic?The sentence is poorly written. They meant "subjected", not "subject". The authentic nucleus later underwent interpolation.
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But what does the original authentic nucleus look like? Click here to see there seems no such nucleus: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Antiquities_of_the_Jews/Book_XVIII#Chapter_3
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NL888 But what does the original authentic nucleus look like? Click here to see there seems no such nucleus: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Antiquities_of_the_Jews/Book_XVIII#Chapter_3You can't see it. The idea is that long ago, some
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Mister Micawber says that the red clause refers to the nucleus - does he refer to the authentic nucleus, or interpolated nucleus?
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Yes. Thanks. But how to understand what Mister Micawber says? (nucleus = "which was then subject to Christian interpolation")
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The pronoun "which" has as its referent "the nucleus". "The nucleus was then subject(ed) to Christian interpolation."
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