From: GUEST,AR282 - PM
Date: 21 May 06 - 10:17 PM

>>The earlier (Arabian) version in teh same reference omits the stuff mentioned in RED capitals...<<

One more time: what historian or commentator prior to Eusebius mentions this passage?

Quite likely none. After all, there were very few people prior to Eusebius. That there is direct evidence of, anyhow, as opposed to later copyists' (who may have been authors') attestations.

Eusebius is pretty shaky ground upon which to build a proof; he was clearly not an historian in any impartial "let the facts speak for themselves" sense.

But then... what evidence do we have that Eusebius existed?

Haruo