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Joseph of Arimathea
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Is there any possibility that Joseph of Arimathea and Mary's husband Joseph were the same person?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Of course it is conjecture, and we can thank chakka for pointing out our oversight in that respect. As I see it we have several adjoining issues in this thread:
1. That Joe of A was Joe of N
2. That Joe of A was not Joe of N
3. That Mary had a fling with a man called Joe of N (or A) after God of course
4. That Mary possibly had a fling with her uncle who may or may not have been called Joe of N (or A) who was about 45 when she was 12 and died at 86
5. The mortality rates of the 1st century Jewish populace (rich or poor)
6. Thomas the Tank Engine, was more entertaining than Gordon and whether the Fat Controller was indeed, fat
7. What variety of fruit Cinderella used for taking a ride (poss. Pumpkin of the cucurbita genus)
8. That China Doll is lost, probably somewhere in the sidings at Tidmouth
In fact CD - although chakka will probably refer to this as a figment of my inevitable procrastination towards accepting that Snow White lived in sin with 7 very short men - Josephus (not N or A) explained longevity far better than I ever could in his �Antiquities� I:5:104-108�.
���..God afforded them a longer time of life on account of their virtue and the good use they made of it in astronomical and geometrical discoveries, which would not have afforded the time of foretelling unless they had lived six hundred years��.�
1. That Joe of A was Joe of N
2. That Joe of A was not Joe of N
3. That Mary had a fling with a man called Joe of N (or A) after God of course
4. That Mary possibly had a fling with her uncle who may or may not have been called Joe of N (or A) who was about 45 when she was 12 and died at 86
5. The mortality rates of the 1st century Jewish populace (rich or poor)
6. Thomas the Tank Engine, was more entertaining than Gordon and whether the Fat Controller was indeed, fat
7. What variety of fruit Cinderella used for taking a ride (poss. Pumpkin of the cucurbita genus)
8. That China Doll is lost, probably somewhere in the sidings at Tidmouth
In fact CD - although chakka will probably refer to this as a figment of my inevitable procrastination towards accepting that Snow White lived in sin with 7 very short men - Josephus (not N or A) explained longevity far better than I ever could in his �Antiquities� I:5:104-108�.
���..God afforded them a longer time of life on account of their virtue and the good use they made of it in astronomical and geometrical discoveries, which would not have afforded the time of foretelling unless they had lived six hundred years��.�
86 is a good age but it's not all that unlikely.
Remember when we talk about low life expectancy in historical terms the figures are skewed by appaling figures for deaths under 5 and deaths in childbirth.
If you survived to adulthood and (if female) past childbirth you could often live quite a long time.
Remember the old testament quotes man does live but three score years and ten - so living to 70 sounds like an expected age for an old timer.
Remember when we talk about low life expectancy in historical terms the figures are skewed by appaling figures for deaths under 5 and deaths in childbirth.
If you survived to adulthood and (if female) past childbirth you could often live quite a long time.
Remember the old testament quotes man does live but three score years and ten - so living to 70 sounds like an expected age for an old timer.
Fair enough, 4GS , except that you do not express your own views but those of a dishonest author. The fact that you have just repeated the time of Jesus' death exactly as Thiede comically pronounced it, despite my rubbishing of his book (every item of my criticism being something you could check if you wished), shows that you not a real seeker of the truth. As I have said before you really should do some objective reading of your own.
Never mind, I won't mention you again.
Never mind, I won't mention you again.
Methuselah died at the age of 969, having been born in 3317 BC (when Adam was still alive) and died in 2348 BC, the time of Noah's flood. So 80 years is nothing much in biblical terms. I'm not sure if they used the same calendar then, but I imagine it had nice pictures of the Garden of Eden each month.