dunn merely wrote that there is broad consensus that josephus wrote something like the following with dunn selecting meier's reconstruction from several other reconstructions dunn failed to mention that there is no consensus over exact nature of the redaction different scholars give differing redactions and this is what schneemelcher was referring to there are currently eight different redactions of the testimonium including john p meier schlomo pines geza vermes paul winter james charlesworth f f bruce claudia setzer