Original sentence: " However, Kenneth Humphreys has argued that based on the successive lines especially the last ("Whereupon Albinus complied with what they said, and wrote in anger to Ananus, and threatened that he would bring him to punishment for what he had done; on which king Agrippa took the high priesthood from him, when he had ruled but three months, and made Jesus, the son of Damneus, high priest.") that the Jesus talked about in this passage is not the Jesus of the Bible but rather another man called Jesus.However the value of using the Talmud, which was written between the 3rd and 6th century, as a reliable witness in this matter is both highly questionable and inconsistent if one questions the validity of works written within 20 years of Jesus's death.References to Jesus outside of Christian documents include:.The concensus of biblical scholars and historians is that Jesus was a historical figure, and the theory of Jesus' non-historicity is rarely discussed in academic literature.Two early proponents of the idea that Jesus was a mythical character were Constantin-François Volney and Charles François Dupuis, radical French Enlightenment thinkers who published books in the 1790s that argued Christ was based upon a combination of Persian and Babylonian mythology
Edited sentence: " However, Kenneth Humphreys has argued that this refers to a different person also called Jesus (Jesus, son of Damneus or Jesus ben Damneus) who was made High Priest  The fact that Josephus describes John the Baptist in a clear manner, would make one assume that the James, brother of Jesus, refers to the Biblical figure.However the value of using the Talmud, which was written between the 3rd and 6th century, as a reliable witness in this matter is highly questionable and inconsistent if one questions the validity works written within living memory of Jesus.Of the many references to Jesus outside of Christian documents:.The concensus of biblical scholars and historians is that Jesus was a historical figure.The idea of Jesus as a myth is rejected by mainstream biblical scholars and historians, and is seen as very fringe.Two early proponents of the idea that Jesus was a mythical character were Constantin-François Volney and Charles François Dupuis, radical French Enlightment thinkers who published books in the 1790s that argued Christ was based upon a combination of Persian and Babylonian mythology