Scholars have differing opinions on the total or partial authenticity of the reference in Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 of the Antiquities to the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, a passage usually called the Testimonium Flavianum.

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Scholars have differing opinions on the total or partial authenticity of the reference in Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 of the Antiquities to the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, a passage usually called the Testimonium Flavianum ..

In 1951 the RTTC said, in a statement of around 3, 500 words headed The Council's Statement on the Menace of Mass Start Racing on the Highway: " Bunched racing is an utterly selfish and irresponsible use of roads ; the policy of the Council is that all such racing should be stopped ; the ringleaders and their associates of the BLRC have only financial gain as their motive ; unsuspecting commercial concerns and newspapers have been given a distorted story about road racing ; BLRC road races violate every one of the principles of clean amateurism, authenticity, and regard for public safety.

Steerable front wheels, jewelled headlights and rear lights and an opening boot complete with spare wheel were added on the Bentley Continental Sports Saloon ( 224 ) in April 1961, and by October 1963 with the release of the Ghia L6. 4 ( 241 ) new levels of authenticity were reached.

Yet on February 4, 2008, the Shaanxi Province Forestry Bureau released an apology, qualifying their earlier statements but without repudiating the pictures ' authenticity, saying " We curtly released the discovery of the South China tiger without substantial proof, which reflects our blundering manner and lax discipline.

Albert Barnes ( 1798 – 1870 ) said regarding its authenticity:

Much of the controversy and dispute concerning the authenticity of the Gospel of Barnabas can be re-expressed as debating whether specific highly transgressive themes ( from an orthodox Christian perspective ) might already have been present in the source materials utilised by a 14th – 16th century vernacular author, whether they might be due to that author himself, or whether they might even have been interpolated by the subsequent editor.

( One aspect of the best fakes is the lingering doubt that, possibly, there is some authenticity behind them – as is the case with Kosinski.

The limited evidence for Offa's direct involvement in the kingdom between 765 and 776 includes two charters of 774 in which he grants land in Kent ; but there are doubts about their authenticity, so Offa's intervention in Kent prior to 776 may have been limited to the years 764 – 765.

However, doubts have been expressed about the authenticity of the charters which support this version of events, and it is possible that Offa's direct involvement in Sussex was limited to a short period around 770 – 771.

We ’ re aiming for authenticity – recreating the wonder of 1978 all over again !” The company also said it would publish a series of Blake's 7 novels at a rate of two per year.

Another point calling the map's authenticity into question was raised at the 1966 Conference: that one caption referred to Bishop Eirik of Greenland " and neighboring regions " ( in Latin, " regionumque finitimarum "), a title known previously from the work of religious scholar Luka Jelic ( 1863 – 1922 ).

Additionally, over the past 5 – 6 years several companies have arisen that verify the authenticity of the testimonials businesses present on the marketing materials in an effort to convince one to become a customer.

When Máeldub died, Aldhelm was appointed in 675, according to a charter of doubtful authenticity cited by William of Malmesbury, by Leuthere, Bishop of Winchester ( 671 – 676 ), to succeed to the direction of the monastery, of which he became the first abbot.

He defended an authenticity of the Pericopa Adulterae ( John 7: 53 – 8: 11 ), Comma Johanneum ( 1 John 5: 7 ), and Testimonium Flavianum.

Pitseolak Ashoona, ( 1904 or 1907 or 1908 – 1983 ; Inuktitut syllabics: ᐱᑦᓯᐅᓛᖅ ᐊᓲᓇ ) was an Inuit Canadian artist admired for the unpretentious authenticity in her works.

Lorenzo Valla, an Italian Catholic priest and Renaissance humanist, is credited with first exposing the forgery with solid philological arguments in 1439 – 1440, although the document's authenticity had already been repeatedly contested since 1001.

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Many of the conflicting versions about the origin of the " Spoonmaker's Diamond ", a major treasure of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, link it with Ali Pasha – though their historical authenticity is doubtful.

" Cynthia Ozick later gushed " – wrote Norman Finkelstein – " that she ' immediately ' recognized Kosiński's authenticity as ' a Jewish survivor and witness to the Holocaust '.

( One aspect of the best fakes is the lingering doubt that, possibly, there is some authenticity behind them – as is the case with Kosinski.

Richard Porson ( 1759 – 1808 ) was a major figure in the opposition to the authenticity of the verse.

In a 1474 letter of Toscanelli to Columbus, the authenticity of which has been a matter of disagreement among scholars, Toscanelli mentions the visit of men from Cathay ( China ) during the reign of Pope Eugenius IV ( 1431 – 1447 ):

InterPARES 2 ( 2002 – 2007 ) concentrated on issues of reliability, accuracy and authenticity of records throughout their whole lifecycle, and examined records produced in dynamic environments in the course of artistic, scientific and online government activities.

The controversy regarding the file led Folha to admit that not only had the file not been obtained from the archives of DOPS, the political police of the military dictatorship – in contrast to what had been previously stated – but also that the file's authenticity could not be confirmed.

It is a novel that " owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain "; perhaps more significantly, it was a spy novel that " established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story – the same ploy that would be used so well by John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carré and many others.

This, mixed with the popularity of this flatbread has opened the market to several ranges of frozen paratha – especially in Western markets where consumers seek the authenticity, but lack the time required to make a paratha from scratch.

The authenticity of his list of 10 antediluvian kings who reigned for 120 sari or 432, 000 years, has been partially confirmed by the inscriptions ; but his 8 postdiluvian dynasties are difficult to reconcile with the monuments, and the numbers associated with them are probably corrupt.

* Additionally, the passage in 1 John 5: 7 – 8 often referred to as the Johannine Comma is thrown into italics by Scrivener because of its disputed authenticity, although the original translators left no indication that they doubted its genuineness.

The drama itself -- and this seems to be lavishly true of Biblical drama -- often has hardly any relationship with authenticity at all.

Of the authenticity of the work as a whole there has never been any doubt.

The authenticity of this work has been hotly disputed, especially by Dr Francis Clarke in his two volume work The Pseudo-Gregorian Dialogues.

The quotation from the Gospel of John has raised some questions about the meaning and authenticity of the phrase " born again ".

The Church also has a number of statements regarding diagnosed conditions accompanied by legal affidavits of authenticity signed by medical practitioners who witnessed a non-medical healing.

The authenticity of the letter, however, has been defended with equal strength.

This claim has been disputed by historians of science including Lynn Thorndike, John Maxson Stillman and George Sarton and by Bacon's editor Robert Steele, both in terms of authenticity of the work, and with respect to the decryption method.

Modern scholarship has doubted their authenticity, and these works are generally referred to as forming part of the " Hesiodic Corpus " whether or not their authorship is accepted.

John Esposito notes that " Modern Western scholarship has seriously questioned the historicity and authenticity of the hadith ", maintaining that " the bulk of traditions attributed to the Prophet Muhammad were actually written much later.

It is both the lack of any original corroborating manuscript source outside the Christian tradition as well as the practice of Christian interpolation that has led to the scholarly debate regarding the authenticity of Josephus ' references to Jesus in his work.

As a result, it has little place in the ongoing debate over the authenticity and nature of the references to Jesus in the Antiquities.

A comparative argument made against the authenticity of the James passage by scholars such as Tessa Rajak is that the passage has a negative tone regarding the High Priest Ananus, presenting him as impulsive while in the Jewish Wars Josephus presents a positive view of Ananus and portrays him as prudent.

However, according to Painter unlike the Testimonium this issue has not generated a great deal of controversy, although viewed as a potential reason for doubting authenticity.

Claire Rothschild has stated that the absence of Christian interpolations in the Josephus passage on John the Baptist can not by itself be used as an argument for its authenticity, but is merely an indication of the lack of tampering.

Louis Feldman has stated that in the period from 1937 to 1980 at least 87 articles had appeared on the topic, the overwhelming majority of which questioned the total or partial authenticity of the Testimonium.

Wells has argued against the authenticity of the Testimonium, stating that the passage is noticeably shorter and more cursory than such notices generally used by Josephus in the Antiquities, and that had it been authentic, it would have included more details and a longer introduction.

A final argument from silence relates to Josephus ' own writings and questions the authenticity of Testimonium based on the fact that it has no parallel in the Jewish War, which includes a discussion of Pontius Pilate at about the same level of detail.

Louis Feldman states that the authenticity of the Josephus passage on James has been " almost universally acknowledged " Feldman states that this passage, above others, indicates that Josephus did say something about Jesus.

Alice Whealy, who supports the partial authenticity of the Testimonium, has rejected the arguments by Kenneth Olson regarding the total fabrication of the Testimonium by Eusebius, stating that Olson's analysis includes inaccurate readings of both the works of Josephus and Eusebius, as well as logical flaws in his argument.

One of the arguments against the authenticity of the James passage has been that in the Jewish Wars Josephus portrays the High Priest Ananus in a positive manner, while in the Antiquities he writes of Ananus in a negative tone.

It has a barbaric and oriental magnificence that asserts itself with a happy power and authenticity too often absent from visionary poems set within the Christian tradition.

Although a vast amount of information, imagery, and commentary ( i. e. " content ") has been made available, it is often difficult to determine the authenticity and reliability of information contained in web pages ( in many cases, self-published ).

Biblical scholar F. F. Bruce has said " the evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning ... It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament records than have many theologians.

Collier's later career as a literary forger has cast some doubt on the authenticity of the script, which is rather literary in style and may well have been tidied up from the rough-and-tumble street-theatre original.