Talk:Luke 3:1

Flavius Josephus: Antiquities 20.7.1:

SO Claudius sent Felix, the brother of Pallas, to take care of the affairs of Judea; and when he had already completed the twelfth year of his reign, he bestowed upon Agrippa the tetrarchy of Philip and Batanea, and added thereto Trachonites, with Abila; which last had been the tetrarchy of Lysanias; but he took from him Chalcis, when he had been governor thereof four years. ...

--FreezBee 09:57, 2 Feb 2006 (CST)

I asked on the Christian Forums, if there was any evidence of a second Lysanias, and I got this answer:

This was an easy question to answer as, apparently, an inscription was found AT Abila, which is not earlier than Tiberius (making it contemporaneous more or less with our period!) which attest to a second Lysanius. This inscription is in Corpus inscriptionum graecum 4521 which you probably don't have. However, you might have Schurer's History of the Jewish People, where you'll find some of this in volume 1, pp. 567-69.

(All is from Nolland's WBC commentary on Luke, p. 140.).

--FreezBee 04:02, 4 Feb 2006 (CST)