Olson, "Eusebius and the Testimonium Flavianum"
K. A. Olson, “Eusebius and the Testimonium Flavianum,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 61 (1999): 305-322. Olson argues that “we have very good reasons that Eusebius wrote the Testimonium” (322), which...
View ArticleThe Josephus Desktop
The Josephus Desktop is a website by Steve Taverner about the first-century Jewish historian in support of his doctoral topic: This study will provides a new and extensive analysis of Josephus’...
View ArticleJosephus, the Testimonium Flavianum, and Eusebius
The Testimonium Flavianum is and has been one of the most important non-Christian testimonies to the life of Jesus. It is now found in the 18th book of Jewish Antiquities, a history of the Jews...
View ArticleA Pre-Eusebian Witness to the Testimonium
As I discussed in my previous message, “Josephus, the Testimonium Flavianum, and Eusebius,” the case for ascribing the origin of at least some form of the Testimonium, given Eusebius’s fingerprints...
View ArticleTacitus, Josephus, and Eusebius
I’ve had a couple of good reactions to view that I had mooted earlier that the Roman historian Tacitus writing only 20 years or so after the Jewish historian Josephus is a witness to some from of the...
View ArticlePseudo-Hegesippus
Roger Pearse has announced (see his preface) the availability of Wade Blocker’s English translation of Pseudo-Hegisippus, De excidio urbis Hierosolymitanae [On the ruin of the city of Jerusalem]. This...
View ArticleThe Testimonium Flavianum Series
Over the years, I have made a series of posts on the Testimonium Flavianum, a passage in Josephus, AJ 18.63-64, that, if genuine, presents a first-century, non-Christian witness to Jesus. Since the...
View ArticlePharr on Josephus and John the Baptist
Nearly eighty years ago, Clyde Pharr, “The Testimony of Josephus to Christianity” AJP 48 (1927): 137-147, pointed out something in the explanation of John the Baptist by Josephus, AJ 18.116-119. Here...
View ArticleOrigen and the Testimonium Flavianum
Origen clearly did not know the TF in its present form. Some would claim that it was not present in any form in his copy of Josephus. If, however, the TF in some form goes back to Josephus (the opinion...
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