Arrius Calpurnius Piso (aka The NT Jesus) In The Talmud A paper using information from the Jewish Proof Texts to expose the creation of Christianity by royal Roman, Arrius C. Piso and his family. Also see our paper, 'Pliny The Younger In The Talmud&#39...

The Pharisees, who were secular humanists teaching ethics, were writing in the Talmud what they knew about the creation of Christianity; including who did it & why. #Discover #Reads #FreeDownload #Talmud #Jesus #FlaviusJosephus #Josephus #ArriusPiso #Christ #Bible

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Free book, 'Piso Christ', tells how, why & by whom, the New Testament was written. Christianity was created during a time of war as a part of that war. The war was fought over the issue of slavery & human rights for The People. Roman rulers & royals of the Roman Empire wanted to keep the slavery that they had been used to & took for granted. But certain Jewish leaders wanted to help The People and free them of slavery. Everyone needs to know the information in this book, which is why I made it free (as well as the rest of my work). Please tell others! - Roman Piso

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How Christianity Began:

#BurdenofProof DESTROYS Historical Jesus Claim 🔥

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An #agnostic caller shows up 85% confident that a historical #Jesus existed — and he brought #Josephus as his ace in the hole.

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Why #Josephus Can't Prove #Jesus Existed

#Atheism
In this conversation, we break down why the two most cited passages in Josephus are interpolations, and why the #historical #evidence for Jesus is far weaker than most people realize.

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JOSEPHUS 1755 JEWISH ANTIQUITIES HISTORY WAR JUDAISM MACCABEES German COTTA

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JOSEPHUS GORIONIDES 1707 JOSIPPON Hebrew Josephus JEWISH HISTORY Breithaupt

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Steve Mason has written a lengthy review article discussing T.C. Schmidt’s recent study, “Josephus & Jesus”, in the February issue of ITQ. It’s available in Open Access here:
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#HistoricalJesus #Josephus #TestimoniumFlavianum

Hansen's Contribution to the James in Josephus Debate • Richard Carrier Blogs There is a valuable new study by Chrissy Hansen, “Josephus and the Murder of James: An Argument Against Some Common Wisdom,” in the new journal Studies of Biblical Interest 2 (2025). I don’t agree wit...

Brief #historical analysis of a new paper arguing a broader #interpolation theory for the #James brother of #Jesus passage in #Josephus

Why it's a worthwhile even if wrong & why I think it's wrong. And I connect it to some lessons in #methodology

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#JesusMyth

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Eight Souls Saved Through Water Noah, a preacher of righteousness, effectively preached to his generation warning them of the coming flood. In so doing, eight souls were saved, only those of his family. How many people can say the same? What is most important is the offer he made to literally hundreds of thousands that went ignored until the very end according to the Book of Jasher. This rejection has some very important complications for those who lived then and today. 

📣 New Podcast! "Eight Souls Saved Through Water" on @Spreaker #book_of_jasher #eight_souls_saved_by_water #josephus #judgment #new_heaven_and_earth #noah #preacher_of_righteousness #shem_ham_japheth #the_flood #tree_of_life

T.C. Schmidt on James in Josephus: Apologetics vs. History • Richard Carrier Blogs After Exposing T.C. Schmidt’s Oxford Apologetics for the Testimonia Flaviana altogether (and his fellow Christians failed to rescue him), I now shall address his appendix on my case against Josephus r...

Here's my appendix to my previous exposé of Schmidt, covering his appendix apologetically responding to my study on the James passage in #Josephus and the findings are the same as before.

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#historicity #interpolation #history #manuscripts

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Public Zoom on Josephus and Bayes • Richard Carrier Blogs This video is now publicly available. I am keeping the original announcement below. But to watch see The Knowledge Nexus. The de-animated slides are available here (but the usual advisory: the slides ...

My #bayesian #Josephus lecture and slideshow are now available. See my original post for details:

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#history #HistoricalMethods #BayesTheorem

'Piso Christ': The Other Side Of The Jesus Story. Free Version. Arrius Calpurnius Piso & his family created Christianity. Read about it now & see what they actually wrote. #FreeDownload #Discover #Jesus #Bible #NewTestament #booksky #FreeBook #BookSky💙📚 #Josephus

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Public Zoom on Josephus and Bayes • Richard Carrier Blogs This Saturday I’ll be giving a free public lecture online:  “Josephus on Jesus: How Likely Fake? A Bayesian Tutorial in Historical Reasoning.” I’ll analyze the two passages in Josephus supposedly ment...

This Saturday I'll be lecturing on the #authenticity of the major & minor #testimoniumflavianum in #Josephus using #bayesian methods of #history as #BayesTheorem elucidates why attempts to defend these passage are illogical. Public Zoom w Q&A.

Join us!

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Flavius Josephus aka Arrius Calpurnius Piso.pdf Who was Flavius Josephus? Answering this one question, leads to answers to virtually all other questions about ancient history. The answer is that he was Arrius Calpurnius Piso, a royal Roman. He wrot...

Of my research of the ancestry & relationship of the popes, inevitably all that I could trace back to the 1st century led directly back to Arrius Piso; the main creator of Christianity. He, his family & descendants were popes. #FlaviusJosephus #ArriusPiso #Josephus

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The actual Roman authors of the New Testament:

It was great to present our #israelsciencefoundation project #JosephusChristianus this year at the #SBL2025 #Josephus Panel! Publications are on their way, and more conferences to go!

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Timeline of the war that led to the creation of Christianity:

Studies of Biblical Interest - Volume II (2025) CHRISSY M. HANSEN - Josephus and the Murder of James: An Argument Against Some Common Wisdom - p. 1-19

📢 New in "Studies of Biblical Interest"

Chrissy M. Hansen argues that the James passage in Josephus Ant. 20.200 shows signs of Christian redaction and may have been interpolated by Eusebius.

Open Access and available here: www.biblicaljournal.org#volumes

#Josephus #James #BiblicalStudies

Arrius Piso And The Emperor Domitian This paper tells a little known part of the story involving the creation of Christianity, and how a family alliance between the Flavians and Pisos had worked for the Piso family until the death of the...

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Arrius Piso (aka 'Flavius Josephus') And The Emperor Domitian
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Exposing T.C. Schmidt's Oxford Apologetics for the Testimonia Flaviana • Richard Carrier Blogs There is a new book published by Oxford University Press that is a travesty of Christian apologetics undeservedly snaking the respectability of, well, Oxford University: T.C. Schmidt’s Josephus and Je...

An exposé of the dubious #apologetics in T.C. Schmidt's book claiming the #TestimoniumFlavianum in #Josephus is authentic as written & proves extensive first-hand sources on the historical #Jesus -- spoiler: it's all bullshit. #history #christianity

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Have you heard of Flavius Josephus? What historic religious figure do you want to learn about next? #josephus #history #rome #bible #religiousfigures

Why Do Josephus And The Gospels Contradict Each Other About John The Baptist? **By Evan Minton** The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus was born in A.D 37. In about A.D 90, he wrote his book “Antiquities Of The Jews” in which he writes a history of the Jewish people. In this work, he mentions several individuals who appear in The New Testament such as Jesus, James’, the brother of Jesus, Caiaphas, King Herod the Great, and John The Baptist, among several others. With regards to John The Baptist, Josephus says that King Herod (Antipas) killed him, just as The New Testament does. Josephus writes _“Now some of the Jews thought that the destruction of Herod’s army came from God, and was a very just punishment for what he did against John called the Baptist. For Herod had him killed, although he was a good man and had urged the Jews to exert themselves to virtue, both as to justice toward one another and reverence towards God, and having done so join together in washing. …. And when others massed about him, for they were very greatly moved by his words, Herod, who feared that such strong influence over the people might carry to a revolt — for they seemed ready to do anything he should advise — believed it much better to move now than later have it raise a rebellion and engage him in actions he would regret. And so John, out of Herod’s suspiciousness, was sent in chains to Machaerus, the fort previously mentioned, and there put to death; but it was the opinion of the Jews that out of retribution for John God willed the destruction of the army so as to afflict Herod.”_(Antiquities 18.5.2 116-119) Josephus said that the reason Herod killed John The Baptist was that Herod feared that John might lead a rebellion against him, and ergo overthrow him. However, this is not what The Bible says. Read Matthew’s account of John’s death in chapter 14. Matthew says that the reason Herod had John killed was that John was speaking out against Herod Antipas’ marriage because it was unlawful under The Old Testament law. Herodias had divorced her husband and married Herod Antipas. Now, this would have been fine if Herod’s brother had died, but since he was still alive, this was considered adultery. Matthew 14 says that it wasn’t Herod’s idea to have John killed, but that he was instead backed into a corner by promising Herodias’ daughter Salome that if she danced for him, he would give her anything she asked for. She danced, and, at the nudging of her mother, asked for John The Baptist’s head delivered on a platter. So which is it? Who’s right? Is Josephus right or is Matthew right? Well, we might say; “Well, since The Bible is God’s word, it cannot err. So we must conclude that it was Matthew who is right and Josephus who is wrong”. Of course, this answer won’t suffice for the non-believer who doesn’t believe that The Bible is inspired. Luke 8, I believe, provides us with the answer. Didn’t you ever wonder how would Matthew have gotten this information in the first place? After all, this happened in the privacy of Herod’s home. None of the disciples were there. Jesus wasn’t there. How did Matthew know what was going on behind closed doors? Luke 8:1-3 says _“After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means.”_(emphasis mine) Luke tells us that one of Jesus’ followers had a family member who was the manager of Herod’s household. This would provide a plausible explanation for how Matthew could have known what was happening at Herod’s birthday party. Chuza told Joanna about this incident, and then Joanna told Jesus and the disciples. Matthew would then have this information to later record in his gospel. What we can conclude, then, is that Matthew is right because he had better source information than Josephus! Matthew was actually told by someone who had a family member who worked for Herod Antipas why Herod Antipas had John The Baptist killed. Josephus was only speculating on Herod Antipas’ motive based on what appeared to be the case to him. Now, one may object “But couldn’t Luke have simply made this Joanna person up simply to give us an explanation for how they knew about Herod’s motives?” My answer: No. It’s unlikely that Luke made up Joanna or lied about her husband working for Herod Antipas simply to answer the question of how they knew Herod Antipas’ motive. For one thing, this small detail isn’t mentioned in the context of Herod Antipas’ party. Herod Antipas’ party isn’t even mentioned in Luke 7, 8, or 9. If Luke provided this small detail simply to solve the problem, why didn’t he do it in the context of the party? Moreover, scholars have made good arguments that Luke’s gospel was written sometime in the 50s’ A.D when all of the eyewitnesses were still around and could have corrected Luke if he were making this up. Though it’s beyond the scope of this blog post to get into dating arguments. Thirdly, this is what New Testament scholars Tim and Lydia McGrew would call “Undesigned Coincidences”. An undesigned coincidence is when one gospel says something that raises a question, but another gospel mentions an incidental little detail that answers it. From what I recall, Luke never talks about Herod Antipas’ banquet. Matthew does, but Luke doesn’t. Matthew raised a question (i.e “how would he have known what went on at Antipas’ place?”) but Luke answered it (i.e “One of Jesus’ followers had a husband who was his household manager”). * * * **Evan Minton is a Christian Apologist and blogger at Cerebral Faith ( www.cerebralfaith.blogspot.com). He is the author of “Inference To The One True God” and “A Hellacious Doctrine”. He has engaged in several debates which can be viewed on Cerebral Faith’s “My Debates” section. Mr. Minton lives in South Carolina, USA.** **Original Blog Source:** http://bit.ly/2AOjnEe

The Gospels position John as a precursor to #Jesus with his death preceding the crucifixion, while #Josephus seems to date John’s death at a somewhat later period after Jesus’ death.
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