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Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin

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  • From: jim west <jwest AT Highland.Net>
  • To: Jack Kilmon <jkilmon AT historian.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin
  • Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:09:00 -0400

At 01:16 PM 10/29/99 -0700, you wrote:

>Paul doesn't know about it and he died in the mid to late
>60's. Matthew and Luke have different variants. This seems
>to place the development of the virgin birth sometime between
>70 and 90 CE in Antioch or Ephesus. 4G, supposedly of Ephesian
>origin, has no virgin birth...so did Matthew get it from Luke
>or Luke from Matthew? Is it possible this was just a Matthean
>aggaddic midrash gone wild amongst the goyim?

we are now in synoptic list territory...
the short answer, jack ole' buddy, is that they both got it from Q- who
portrays jesus as a "great man"... hmmmmmm.......

best,

jim




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