(October 7, 2023 at 3:25 pm)GrandizerII Wrote:(October 7, 2023 at 3:17 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: Jesus and James were both very common names and Josephus was typically meticulous about identifying who he was talking about. When he said "Jesus, who was called Christ" this did not pinpoint what his own personal beliefs about the matter might be. And Richard Carrier put forth the "son of Damneus" theory but it doesn't comport with Josephus' writing style. Nowhere does he introduce a man simply by his name, as in just Jesus, minus the "called Christ" part, and then later refer to the same man with more specificity, as in Jesus, son of Damneus. It's always the other way around.
Tim O'Neill responds to Carrier in detail here on this very topic:
https://historyforatheists.com/2018/02/j...-the-lord/
I first encountered Tim O'Neill on the Reason To Doubt podcast, which led me to that blog post, and I've previously read it. Quite encyclopedic.
