From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
    reader wrote:   
      
   > Sorry old chap, that is 557.3 years, not 600   
   >   
   > The rest of this "jut so" story is   
      
   You're babbling. Incoherently. In reply to yourself. And *This* is what   
   passes for "Rational Discourse" in your book!   
      
   Do you know what provenance is? Any clue what so ever?   
      
   If someone hands you an oil lamp and says "It's from ancient Israel"   
   that isn't provenance. And if someone hands you a book and says   
   "It's a copy of an original Josephus manuscript" that isn't provenance   
   either.   
      
   Like I said, and you were incapable of grasping, even if Washington DC   
   were vaporized by an asteroid tomorrow we still have the lineage for   
   every copy -- or, as in many cases, "Reproduction" -- of the Constitution.   
   We know what they copied. We know where they found it, how it got   
   there. For almost every ancient Roman "Source" this is not true. It's not   
   true for any Josephus, any Caesar or Tacitus... Pliney the Elder... Younger...   
      
   And I know I say this without your willingness to so much as try to   
   understand but, it amuses me. So there.   
      
      
      
      
      
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