Arthur Drews - PDF Wikipedia Aug. 23, 2012 PAGES - Radikalkritik

I. The Jewish Witnesses
A Roman portrait bust said to be of Josephus[35]
1. Philo: a Jewish contemporary of Jesus, knew of the Essenes, but makes no
mention of Jesus or Christians.[36]
2. Justus of Tiberias: Drews mentions the curious case of Photius, the 9th
century Patriarch of Constantinople, who became famous for his Bibliotheca or
Myriobiblon, a collection of excerpts and summaries of some 280 classical
volumes now mostly lost. Photius read through the Chronicle of Justus of
Tiberias, a contemporary of Josephus, who went through the Jewish Wars and
the destruction of Jerusalem. Justus wrote a book about the War, and a
Chronicle of the Jewish people from Moses to Agrippa II (27-ca. 94 AD).
"Photius himself believed there ought to be some mention of Jesus [in Justus's
Chronicle], and was surprised to find none." [emphasis added][36]
3. Josephus: pros and cons of the famous passage Testimonium Flavanium,
concluding it is most likely an interpolation or alteration.[37][38]