(July 6, 2018 at 10:06 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:(July 6, 2018 at 10:02 am)Drich Wrote: Why would anyone mention a quelled uprising that ultimately lead to a gubernatorial power shift in the region which ultimately lead to the insurrection and destruction of the region? yes indeed that would be totally uncharastic for a historian to mention the events preceding the obliteration of jerusalem and the wholesale slaughter of it's people and culture.
No, the uncharacteristic thing is Josephus, a Jew, talking about Jesus AND taking reports of his divinity at face value.
In 1995 a discovery was published that brought important new evidence to the debate over the Testimonium Flavianum.
For the first time it was pointed out that Josephus' description of Jesus showed an unusual similarity with another early description of Jesus.
It was established statistically that the similarity was too close to have appeared by chance.
Further study showed that Josephus' description was not derived from this other text, but rather that both were based on a Jewish-Christian "gospel" that has since been lost.
For the first time, it has become possible to prove that the Jesus account cannot have been a complete forgery and even to identify which parts were written by Josephus and which were added by a later interpolator.
Read about this discovery here!
http://www.josephus.org/testimonium.htm
If you click on the link there is a lnk to the various chapter of a book studying what is purposed in the above summary.
Meaning they found another writing that copied the original josephus texts.
