Reply #102: There are only TWO instances where Josephus mentions Jesus.

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The most detailed is the Testimonium Flavianum which is an obvious forgery. the other is a passing reference to Jesus the brother of James, but if one reads that passage in context - ie: reads more than the sentence containing the name Jesus - it's obvious that the Jesus being discussed is not Jesus of Nazareth.

And that's it.

BTW - the reasons for believing the reference to Jesus in the TF are forgeries are many:

* The passage contains overtly Christian content
* The overall passage is positive towards Jesus, even if the overtly Christian parts are removed
* The passage interrupts the continuity of the writing
* Jesus is not mentioned in the Table of Contents
* There are stylistic variations from Josephus' style
* The passage is not referenced by anyone prior to Eusebius in the 4th century
* The section on Pilate is similar to another section on Pilate in Josephus' earlier writing The Jewish War, which does not contain the Jesus reference
* Josephus never wrote anything else about Jesus
* The reference is quite small considering the subject matter, and the fact that Josephus wrote more about John the Baptist and other "false prophets"
* Full insertion of the paragraph is more likely than multiple different alterations

On edit: do yu have an data to support your assertion about "most historians?" All historians believe Josephus was real and wrote his histories, but "most" don't believe he wrote the references about Jesus.