Dr Deagle Show 2013/01/22 - JONATHAN GRAY - CH. 36 "WHO STOLE THE BODY?""
Channel: Urupipeṛ2 Ṫẁo
Date: 2013-01-24

HOUR THREE:  JONATHAN GRAY - Forbidden Secret  CH. 36 Resurrection? -
 "WHO STOLE THE BODY?"

[SNIP]  He was soon a little perturbed to discover what
Josephus -- a 1st century contemporary who was not a Christian -
had written concerning Jesus:

Now there was about this time Jesus... 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... And the tribe of Christians, so named from him,
are not extinct to this day. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the
Jews, Vol. 3, Bk.18, ch.3, sect.3)

Joseph Scaliger, a man highly familiar with Josephus' work,
concludes:

Josephus is the most diligent and the greatest lover of truth
of all writers: nor are we afraid to affirm of him, that it is
more safe to believe him, not only as to the affairs of the
Jews, but also as to those that are foreign to them, than all
the Greek and Latin writers, and this, because his fidelity
and his compass of learning are everywhere conspicuous.
(Joseph Scaliger, In the Prolegomea to De Emendations Temporum,
p.17)

Typical of the accuracy tests which Josephus has passed is his
mention, for example, of the Masada events. An extensive
archaeological excavation of Masada was completed in 1965.
Commenting on the finds, The New Encyclopaedia Brittanica
(1987) states: "The descriptions of the Roman-Jewish historian
Josephus, until then the only detailed source of Masada's
history, were found to be extremely accurate."
Josephus was not to be dismissed out of hand.