Who are Scholars who proposed that Josephus was Christian?

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Steven Avery
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Re: Who are Scholars who proposed that Josephus was Christian?

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Franz Knittel has Josephus as a Christian, but he uses some emendations.

Critical Review (1780)
https://books.google.com/books?id=fXjQA ... =RA1-PA385

Franz Anton Knittel, Herzogl. Braunschw. Lüneburg. Consistorialrath und Generalsuperintendenten Neue Kritiken über das weltberühmte Zeugniss des alten Juden Flavius Josephus von unserem Herrn und Heiland Jesu Christo: Eine synodalische Vorlesung ... (1779)
https://books.google.com/books?id=FLBAAAAAcAAJ
andrewcriddle
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Re: Who are Scholars who proposed that Josephus was Christian?

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Whiston accepted (following Photius and others) that Josephus was the author of the Discourse on Hades see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse ... ning_Hades

This work is clearly Christian was not written by Josephus and may have been written by Hippolytus.
If, however you regard it as Josephan then it establishes that Josephus was a Christian.

Andrew Criddle
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