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Name: shatajit •
Title: Statistics and probability •
Date posted: 10/13/07 13:33
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Q: Can anyone tell me what the population of Jerusalem at the time of Jesus was? If that is known accurately, and you multiply the probability - 1 / 2,400,000 with the total population and get a value greater than unity, it would imply that there could have been atleast two families that had such remarkably similar names. If the product equals less than unity, then from a statistical stand point at least, you could argue that their theory is correct. I wonder why they didn’t do this in the documentary?
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Name: Jana •
Date: 10/13/07 13:38 |
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A: Interesting. Could an expert please comment on this? Simcha perhaps...
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Name: r3 •
Date: 10/14/07 5:04 |
A: See section 6 of Ref. 1 for population of Jerusalem at the time of Jesus.
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1. http://members.aol.com/SHinrichs9/jesustomb.pdf
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