The book Bible Folk-Lore: a Study in Comparative Mythology was written by author James Edwin Thorold Rogers Here you can read free online of Bible Folk-Lore: a Study in Comparative Mythology book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Bible Folk-Lore: a Study in Comparative Mythology a good or bad book?
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17 ; Luke iii. 19 ; " Antiq.," xviii. 5. 262 , BIBLE FOLK LORE. governor of Syria in the year 4 B.c.^ The third Evangelist also represents Lysanias as Tetrarch of Abilene in the reign of Tiberius, though this tetrarchy had long been abolished, and the historic Lysanias had died thirty-six years before Herod the Great, his dominions being governed by Herod and by his successor Agrippa.^ And again, the third Gospel speaks of the Galileans slain by Pilate, apparently by mistake for those followers... of Judas of Galilee who were killed by Cyrenius, but this passage is omitted in Marcion's version of the Gospel.^ In the Acts of the Apostles, generally supposed to be the work of the same author who wrote the third Gospel, similar anachronisms occur ; Theudas- arose not before Judas of Galilee, but thirty-four years later,* if we accept the version of Josephus ; James* was not killed by Antipas, who was banished in 39 A.D., but, according to Josephus, suffered martyrdom in 62 A.D., while the account of Paul's early history in the Book of Acts is not in agreement with the statements of the Pauline epistles;* and it is also difficult to understand how Paul can have been born a Roman subject^ if Tarsus was not a Roman colony till the time of Caracalla, who reigned from 211 to 217 A.D.
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