::::::::::Hi again Jayjg,  
 ::::::::::please ignore the above interjection from Slrubenstein, he evidently has not got access to Theissen's Lehrbuch and has not read the section. The opposite is true - Theissen reports where Maier and Klausner are agreed - that the name Yeshu is a reference to Jesus - in a section dealing with Josephus etc references to Jesus. I ask you, are you aware of any modern academic source that says identification of Yeshu with Jesus is speculative, as you wrote above?