2) JOSEPHUS FLAVIUS, TESTIMONIUM FLAVIUS - Extrabiblical evidence for the historicity of Jesus Christ
Extra Biblical records of Jesus of Nazareth Much debate has been going on regarding the authenticity of the quote from Josephus’ writing, mentioning Jesus! At present there are three scholarly consensus regarding the authenticity of this quote, which is known as the Testimonium Flavius First lets see a little bit about josephus He was Jewish ruler who was born around 36 AD (date of birth and his Mother’s name are unknown, his early life details are unknown! Why am I mentioning this here! Just noting that just because of these facts, no one argues that Josephus is a mythical creature! That’s all!) and died around 100 AD He was originally Joseph Ben Matthias , a jewish ruler who was defeated by the Roman forces in the first Jewish – Roman war at Galileo. There is an interesting back story about how he surrendered and was accepted by emperor Vespasian and acquired the roman citizenship and the name, “Flavius” (which was a roman name!)and so on, which I wont be going into details here..