Historical Jesus, Biblical Jesus

[Minimalist]

So he probably did write about Jesus,

"A" jesus.  Not "THE" jesus.  The book is filled with jesuses of all sorts and the only place where the HJ that christards are so adamant to find exists is in the Eusebian forgery from the 4th century.

Personally I have always found it compelling that christards felt the need to go back and write their boy into history.  It is evidence that he was never able to get there on his own.

However, you were wrong about Josephus and Pilate.  Josephus did not say that Pilate tried to put up a statue in the temple.  If you are going to quote historical sources you may as well take the time to get them right otherwise you look careless.  That is one of Atwill's problems with his Caesar's Messiah bullshit.