Names are geographically and temporally specific — foreign fabricators could not have replicated Palestinian name patterns
Implication of Ilan's name statistics for the community tradition view.
Names change over time and by geographic region. If the Gospels were fabricated in Rome or Asia (far from Palestine), the name distributions would reflect those regions, not Palestine. The fact that Gospel names match Palestinian first-century patterns almost exactly means the traditions originated in Palestine, not in distant communities. This is a strong argument against the community-tradition fabrication model.
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