You don’t even know what you were asking me, do you?  🙂

Is precisely what I’m wondering about you.  🙂

Okay, now I understand what you were asking.  And am marveling somewhat at how obscurely you asked it.  As if it should be obvious.  It was not. 

And honestly, looking back over my previous responses, I’m not sure what more I could say.  I was not saying that I thought it was impossible your idea was wrong–and you seem to have said that you’re not at all sure it’s right.  My point is, simply, there is more reason to think Aramaic or Hebrew sources would be lost than Greek sources, since there would have continued to be many Christians who knew Greek.  Probability is never the same thing as certainty.  And ideas spitballed around on a forum like this are never scholarship, so why do I have to defend my suggestion like it’s a doctoral thesis? 

What exactly were you arguing?  Spell it out.  In simple language, explain how you think the story of Joseph of Arimathea might have come into being in a Greek-speaking Jewish Christian community.  And if that isn’t what you were arguing, then I give up. 

As to ‘argument from silence’: pretty sure that’s what scholars like Bart Ehrman do when they point out that Paul and Mark never mention the Virgin Birth. 

Okay, but you still haven’t explained anything.  I can understand it might take a while.  One way or other, there would have to be a source, written or not.  So you are appealing to something that’s been lost.  

Roger David Aus has a pretty good explanation, and we already discussed that on an earlier thread–guess we both forgot.

And his explanation has nothing to do with Greek.  It relates to the OT.  And Moses.  And if I get a chance later today, I’ll try to lay it out here.  

Then it’s a miracle.  🙂

I know, it’s always someone else’s fault.  Strangely, you seem more comfortable with the likes of Steefen and bren. 

vergari left, because obsessives make for bad conversationalists.  I’ll be gone early next year, for the same reason.  Now let me take a look at Aus’ book–