Posted: Jul 09, 2017 11:20 pm
Tracer Tong wrote:Leucius Charinus wrote:In order to review the argument(s) you have to read the book TT.
I've read the summary of Brunt's argument in the book already. Are you really telling me that you're endorsing Brunt's argument, which you've not read, but only consulted a brief, and critical, summary of in some other book?
Yes. This discussion concerns the entire set of references and my claim that none of these are from the hand of the original author. That Josephus does not mention Christians is a respectable view. That Marcus Aurelius does not mention Christians is also a respectable view.
Does Galen mention the Christians? This question involves an investigation of Galen's text of "On the Pulse". What is the earliest manuscript? All of the extant Greek manuscripts of Galen were copied by Byzantine scholars. The earliest manuscript seems to be as late as the 15th/16th century (If there is an earlier ms please cite it). In it are two exceeding brief mentions of Christians. It is certainly not impossible that these mentions may well have been introduced by the Byzantine copyists.