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