The First Century Void

[RoadRunner79]

But we are only allowed to assume that creative accounting in one direction right?

Someone removed passages?

Sorry.... I thought we where making accusations, without support.

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But we are only allowed to assume that creative accounting in one direction right? 
Also... still looking for evidence for these claims.

What incentive would Origen have had to ignore the TF if it had existed?  It would have clinched the case he was trying to make in Contra Celsus.  Instead he was forced to blame the destruction of Jerusalem on the execution of "James the Just."

Richard Carrier's On The Historicity of Jesus is the first and so far only book which examines all the evidence relating to the godboy stories.  You can read it if you dare.  I suspect you will run the other way in terror.  You know the old adage about leading a horse to water.......

Ohh... the if you dare scare.... why don't you just give your reasons why.... instead of volumes of silence....

Basically your premise seems to be, that if one didn't quote from the source you would prefer, then it must not have happened yet.... by that reasoning, and the number of times, that I have asked for the evidence, I'm assuming that anything you post after is ad hoc... made up B.S. You would have quoted it already, if it was there, Right?

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There's a fun little exercise to which I've never yet seen an honest response, which I'll quote here:

This is the full Chapter 3 of Josephus' Antiquities Book XVIII, minus the Testimonium Flavianum. I've also stripped it of paragraph numbering and footnotes:


And here is the TF paragraph:


Can you identify, purely from the text as it stands, precisely where the TF ought to fit into the main body? Try to put aside any preconceived knowledge of the text and approach this at face value.

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This sounds good..... but if you think about it, you could do the same thing in quite a few places with various text.