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Average lifespan numbers are BS. Those are brought down by
Posted on: April 4, 2021 at 12:31:45 CT
TigerMatt STL
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childhood deaths lowering the average.
I'd suggest studying ancient historiographies and the importance placed being written in the lifetime of eyewitnesses to an event.
From Josephus..
record of all that went on under my eyes in the Roman camp, and was alone in a position to understand the information brought by deserters. Then, in the leisure which Rome afforded me, with all my materials in readiness . . . , at last I committed to writing my narrative of the events (epoiēsamēn tōn praxeōn tēn paradosin). So confident was I of its veracity that I presumed to take as my witnesses, before all others, the commanders-in-chief in the war, Vespasian and Titus . . . (C. Ap. 1.49-50, tr. H. St. J. Thackeray).
I presented the volumes to the Emperors themselves, when the events had hardly passed out of sight, conscious as I was that I had preserved the true story (tetērēkoti tēn tēs alēthēias paradosin). I expected to receive testimony to my accuracy, and I was not disappointed (Life 361, tr. H. St. J. Thackeray).
You, like Ehrman ignore the early Christian community was small. Study up on the writings of Papias and how he was alive and spoke to the eyewitnesses including Mark, who he says was Peter's interpreter.
Your understanding of this era is weak because you only follow pop historians.
I'd suggest studying ancient historiographies and the importance placed being written in the lifetime of eyewitnesses to an event.
From Josephus..
record of all that went on under my eyes in the Roman camp, and was alone in a position to understand the information brought by deserters. Then, in the leisure which Rome afforded me, with all my materials in readiness . . . , at last I committed to writing my narrative of the events (epoiēsamēn tōn praxeōn tēn paradosin). So confident was I of its veracity that I presumed to take as my witnesses, before all others, the commanders-in-chief in the war, Vespasian and Titus . . . (C. Ap. 1.49-50, tr. H. St. J. Thackeray).
I presented the volumes to the Emperors themselves, when the events had hardly passed out of sight, conscious as I was that I had preserved the true story (tetērēkoti tēn tēs alēthēias paradosin). I expected to receive testimony to my accuracy, and I was not disappointed (Life 361, tr. H. St. J. Thackeray).
You, like Ehrman ignore the early Christian community was small. Study up on the writings of Papias and how he was alive and spoke to the eyewitnesses including Mark, who he says was Peter's interpreter.
Your understanding of this era is weak because you only follow pop historians.
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Average lifespan numbers are BS. Those are brought down by - TigerMatt STL - 4/4 12:31:45