Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt01090)

Perry Coles wrote:
> Academia is really shattering a lot of the past presumptions
> concerning early Christianity now especially after the finding of the
> Dead Sea scrolls but I find all the theories are interesting and who
> knows maybe `Jesus' did exist but in the end really I don't know.
There probably was a prominent figure called "Jesus"; while the main 
mention of Jesus by Josephus has been altered so much that we have no 
idea what the original said, there was another, more reliable notation 
where he talks about the death of James, brother of Jesus. The fact that 
he identified James by his brother instead of his father implies that 
whoever this Jesus he was talking about was, he was pretty prominent.

Bart