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Why would Josephus go out of his way to report such hearsay? The TF is a brief interjection on a man of a note who lived around the time frame Josephus was discussing. No need to get into the specifics of Christian belief, or even risk giving Christians credibility. And we can speculate that there's...

I think you're presuming/reading into completely unrelated events far too much. Instead of this rather convoluted chain of events, it's far more easier to posit that Josephus actually wrote "called Christ" to identify James, because his audience would probably be familiar with this Jesus a...

. Lena Einhorn has also noted there are arguments against Josephus’ reference to John being authentic - John the Baptist is not at all mentioned in De bello Judaico , although when it was written in the 70s, John had been dead for several decades. The appearance of John the Baptist is very sudden, ...

I believe this all supposes that Paul wasn't the actual writer of Galatians, if I'm not mistaken. Am I wrong?