Posted: Jul 23, 2013 12:13 pm
neilgodfrey wrote:That Jesus, as you intimate here, is really the same Jesus who is the son of Damneus -- one only has to continue reading that paragraph in Josephus to see how this makes so much sense.
the paragraph in Antiquities 20?
neilgodfrey wrote:As for the 19 or so other Jesuses, it would make no difference if Josephus mentioned 190 Jesuses.
The point is that none of the ones he mentions are in any way evidence for any sort of general popular anticipation for a messiah to appear in that generation of Jews living in Judea.
Yes; None of the 19 or so Jesus mentions are, in any way, a reasonable historical account of the alleged 'Jesus the Christ of Nazareth'.