Josephus and other contemporaries on Jesus

[Pat Mustard]

One crucial point: someone who identified as Jewish, and wrote about “Judean Antiquities” would not have included those passages in the Testimonium Flaviam that allude to Jesus’ divinity. And if he was somehow secretly convinced of Jesus’ divinity, I highly doubt he would have been so off handed about mentioning it.

There are very strong indications that at least parts of the Testimonium Flaviam were fabricated after Josephus’ time.

Well the fact that it only appeared in 325ce and only in the copy of the well known forger for Jesus, Eusebius is also a dead giveaway. When your contempraries will have nothing to do with you (Origen denounced the passage as an obvious fraud), then why should we?