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Footnote 1 - What Did Jesus Know?

I do not think this is a crucial question. If one thinks Jesus did not have scribal literacy, it follows that gospel passages that depend upon the quotation of texts from the Hebrew Bible are the product of post-Easter Christian scribal activity. Note that it is only quotation of texts that is affected; Jesus would have known the stories of the Hebrew Bible and the practices of Judaism through participation in the Jewish tradition, whether he had scribal literacy or not.

Footnote 1 - Julian the Apostate and His Plan to Rebuild the Jerusalem Temple

Although Julian consistently uses the term “Hellene” when writing about himself and those he regards as followers of his religion, “pagan” is at least as appropriate and was not necessarily used pejoratively in antiquity. See Pierre Chuvin, A Chronicle of the Last Pagans (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1990), pp. 7–9.

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