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New Testament Political Figures Confirmed

By Lawrence Mykytiuk

people from the Hebrew Bible have been confirmed by archaeology. What about the New Testament? Lawrence Mykytiuk examines the political figures in the New Testament who can be identified in the archaeological record and by extra-Biblical writings. Find out who makes the cut.

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Footnotes

1.

See Lawrence Mykytiuk, “Archaeology Confirms 50 Real People in the Bible,” BAR, 40:02.

2.

See Lawrence Mykytiuk, “Archaeology Confirms 3 More Bible People,” BAR, 43:03.

3.

See Lawrence Mykytiuk, “Did Jesus Exist? Searching for Evidence Beyond the Bible,” BAR, 41:01.

4.

See R. Steven Notley, “Pontius Pilate: Sadist or Saint?” BAR, 43:04.

Endnotes

1.

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 18.5 in The Works of Josephus, Complete and Unabridged, new updated ed., trans. William Whiston (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1987), p. 484.

2.

Clayton Miles Lehmann and Kenneth G. Holum, The Greek and Latin Inscriptions of Caesarea Maritima, The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima, Excavation Reports 5 (Boston, MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2000), pp. 67–70, no. 43, Plate XXXVI.

3.

Lehmann and Holum, Greek and Latin Inscriptions, p. 70.

4.

A.N. Sherwin-White, “Pilate, Pontius,” in International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, fully rev. ed., vol. 3, p. 867.

5.

Raphaël Savignac, “Texte complet de l’inscription d’Abila relative à Lysanias,” Revue Biblique, new series 9 (1912), pp. 533–540.

6.

Colin J. Hemer, The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History, ed. Conrad H. Gempf (Tübingen, Germany: J.C.B. Mohr, 1989; reprinted Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2001, 2016), pp. pp. 159–160, note 1.