(10-15-2022, 04:12 PM)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Antiquities
1. Pilate erects statue/s of Caesar in Jerusalem and has to remove them after a shit load of trouble.
No, he did not. Josephus refers to them as "ensigns" (some sort of Roman standard) and Philo refers to them as "gilt shields" in Herod's palace not the temple, with inscriptions. It was Caligula who demanded that a statue of himself be placed in the temple but it was never installed.
Perfect..... ! Excellent!
And so you have recognised that Josephus was writing about trouble, strife, fraud, deception and shit in the paragraphs which surrounded some mention about Jesus!
So he probably did write about Jesus, and Christians pasted their own stuff in place of the original, which is so bloody daft! I don't know why they couldn't have placed a really sizeable 'write-up' somewhere else, maybe adjacent to Josephus' entry about the Baptist, but instead they inserted that in to that silly little space amongst 'trouble'......... which is what the real Jesus had been.
