Snooker,The bold face did not work. Should have appeared as...

Snooker,

The bold face did not work. Should have appeared as below:

"About this time there appeared Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one should call him a man. For he was a doer of startling deeds, a teacher of people who receive the truth with pleasure. And he gained a following both among many Jews and among many of Greek origin. HE
WAS THE MESSIAH. And when Pilate, because of an accusation made by the leading men among us, condemned him to the cross, those who had loved him previously did not cease to do so. FOR HE APPEARED TO THEM ON THE THIRD DAY,LIVING AGAIN, JUST AS THE DIVINE PROPHETS HAD SPOKEN OF THESE AND COUNTLESS OTHER WONDROUS THINGS ABOUT HIM. And up until this very day the tribe of Christians, named after him, has not died out".

( this is the Josephus quote then follows Goldberg's critique. lrj)

The suggestion of Meier and others is that we read the passage without the bold-faced words; the result is something that is unobjectionable as a possible authentic writing of Josephus. This example supports the plausibility of the theory that some portion of the passage can reasonably be said to be written by Josephus - a point that has been insufficiently appreciated by some researchers of the past, and which readers new to the passage might not have guessed at first glance..........(continues on previous post).