Posted: Feb 13, 2012 9:22 pm
By the 90's AD, there is no way in the world that Josephus had not heard of "Jesus called Christ" and from the "report" (which means that it's not first hand knowledge) that Josephus writes in Ant. 20:9:1 that he has also heard that James was a member of that sect called Christians (IOW, a "brother" of Jesus). So, yeah there is some misleading going on by the HJ people too.
Yeah, it gets left off that Josephus says in the third sentence of this passage "Now the report goes..." Which means it's an anonymous report or hearsay that he is repeating. It also gets left off that Gal. 1:19 may not, in fact, have existed until after Marcion. Irenaeus, who quotes all that part of Galatians does not quote that verse - just as if it wasn't there. This doesn't get mentioned by the HJers at all.
So, Josephus quotes an anonymous hearsay report and then Tacitus uses Josephus as his hearsay source. Mystery solved.
Yeah, it gets left off that Josephus says in the third sentence of this passage "Now the report goes..." Which means it's an anonymous report or hearsay that he is repeating. It also gets left off that Gal. 1:19 may not, in fact, have existed until after Marcion. Irenaeus, who quotes all that part of Galatians does not quote that verse - just as if it wasn't there. This doesn't get mentioned by the HJers at all.
So, Josephus quotes an anonymous hearsay report and then Tacitus uses Josephus as his hearsay source. Mystery solved.