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spin:
"....It doesn't matter to the individual which road one takes to confirm one's bias."

spin, bias free--that it?

"referring back to a previous idea" is not obliterated by a brief mention of Jesus.

KK, thanks, maybe I could find the answer if I read the whole archive, but, will you please tell me your view. In other words, author X could take Josephus text Y and create, with changes, a quite coherent text. Do you think Josephus mentioned Jesus? spin, now you say I am nitpicking about "sty...

KK, above, in part: "The strongest argument against the authenticity of the TF are the views of those scholars who consider it to be partially authentic" This sentence is ambiguous. It can be read to mean: a) Scholars who view the TF as partially authentic have the strongest argument or b)...

Judah the Essene is mentioned in Josephus War and Antiquities.
Dinner, Ant. 13.266-298.
For Judah ben Gudgeda or Gedidia, b.Qidd. 66a.
For discussion, my "Qumran-Related History...," 2023, 317
and more extensively in
Vered Noam, Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans..., 2018, 76-116.

JoeWallack, above, in part: "spin is of course right that the style of presentation has been under covered...." Interesting use of the word "style" for the proposal by spin, since spin, in this thread, excoriated the word "style." Oh, the suspense, will spin chide Josep...

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Paul. Mark. Didn't I already write that?

JarekS above, in part:
"....Christians started writing after Josephus."

False.

DHC, this gets into the question whether an otzar pool source of water suffices.