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>The Chrst cup, the Mishnah, the Toledot Yeshu, the Nazoraeans of Epiphanius, and Mara Bar Serapion all point to an earlier, first century BCE Yeshu figure inspiring the story of the gospel Jesus, whose Hellenistic audience was unfamiliar with Yeshu and so started to assume that the fictional gospel Jesus was the historical Jesus.
>The Testimonium Flavian Forgery
>The most famous reference by a historian to Jesus is accredited to Josephus Flavius in the first century CE. The Antiquities of the Jews, the second historical work under his name, appears to provide an uncharacteristically small description of Jesus and his followers. The standard version of the Josephus text that has come down to us has a short paragraph about Jesus called the Testimonium Flavian, which reads:
>“But Pilate undertook to bring a current of water to Jerusalem, and did it with sacred money... However the Jews were not pleased... So he [Pilate] bade the Jews himself to go away; but they boldly casting reproaches on him, he gave the soldiers that signal... and equally punished those that were tumultuous, and those that were not, nor did they spare them in the least...and thus an end was put to this sedition.”
>“Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.”
