A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...

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Josephus is an obvious forgery, and still only tells you what people believed, not what was true. It's terrible evidence if you consider it evidence at all.

So we have some other very after-the-fact references to what people may have believed about Jesus, trying to confirm accounts (NT) written way after his supposed death, from hearsay.

That is pathetic I'm afraid, that will never be enough to convince me. Of course there is a chance of a HJ, but to say it's most likely, no way.

If it is true, then I expect more evidence than hearsay and hearsay about hearsay. If there isn't any, then tough. I don't much care what historians say if they are taking hearsay as credible evidence.

If that's enough evidence for you, then that's cool. We just agree to disagree