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Now this writer [Josephus], although not believing in Jesus as the Christ, in seeking after the cause of the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple, whereas he ought to have said that the conspiracy against Jesus was the cause of these calamities befalling the people, since they put to death Christ, who was a prophet, says ...
The works of Josephus refer to at least twenty different people with the name Jesus. There is a scholarly consensus that Jesus son of Damneus is distinct from the figure identified as "Jesus called Christ", who is mentioned along with the identification of James. [ 6 ]
The Christ myth theory, also known as the Jesus myth theory, Jesus mythicism, or the Jesus ahistoricity theory, [1] [a] is the fringe [b] view that the story of Jesus is a work of mythology with no historical substance. [c] Alternatively, in terms given by Bart Ehrman paraphrasing Earl Doherty, it is the view that "the historical Jesus did not ...
Although Josephus says that he describes the events contained in Antiquities "in the order of time that belongs to them," [63] Feldman argues that Josephus "aimed to organize [his] material systematically rather than chronologically" and had a scope that "ranged far beyond mere political history to political institutions, religious and private ...
Whereas the works of Josephus refer to at least twenty different people with the name Jesus, this passage specifies that this Jesus was the one "who was called Christ". [26] [27] Louis Feldman states that this passage, above others, indicates that Josephus did say something about Jesus. [28]
Only a Christian would write that Jesus is the Messiah, or that Jesus was resurrected the third day. tgeorgescu ( talk ) 10:37, 14 October 2022 (UTC) [ reply ] While I doubt that Josephus wrote anything of the sort about Jesus, it is possible that the apocryphal text replaced or embellished one of Josephus' original texts.