[flevit]

good point, but most of those with Yeshua have other names,

again, I am more interested in this find for its apolgetic purposes (so many names in the new testiment and rather objective dating of the tombs) rather than an attack on catholism, I realize the first link I posted is arguementative, but hell, I figured I would get some good info to the contrary.

(for the sake of arguement) any way we are told in scripture that peter was the apostle to the "circumsized"

[Campion]

any way we are told in scripture that peter was the apostle to the "circumsized"

That verse is endlessly misunderstood. It doesn't mean that Peter preached one Gospel and Paul preached another. (There's only one Gospel.) It doesn't mean that Peter somehow had authority only over Jewish converts. (All the apostles had divinely instituted authority over the one Church of Christ.)

All it means is that Paul primarily preached to the Gentiles, because he spoke fluent Greek, and Peter mainly preached to Jewish crowds, because his Greek was not as good. A strategic decision, not a theological one.

[RobbyS]

And the Circumsized were all over the Empire. Africa were not only ordinally colonized by Semites but has a more recent Jewish immigration.

[ventana]

we are told in scripture that peter was the apostle to the "circumcised"

Scripture also says this:

Act 15:7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men [and] brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.