The First Century Void

[Pat Mustard]

True, but what he does not seem to grasp is that what is needed is a manuscript which predates Eusebius, as after that only Eusebius' copies of Josephus survive.  They could have written Wonder Woman in the later manuscripts and it wouldn't make fuckall of a difference to the original Josephan text.

It's a pity no unadulterated copies lasted all the way. We do know of their existence at the 10th century, for Photius I patriarch of Constantinople mentions owning original Aramaic copies of Josephus' works and specifically saying they didn't mention Jesus (castigating Eusebius for his forgeries), and a scholar as recent as Erasmus (IIRC) also mentioned Hebrew copies of Josephus copied directly from originals which made no mention of Jesus.

We're really only a few hundred years out of being able to have definitive proof of Eusebius' forgeries.