For example, Josephus has little to say about Jesus, but at one point in the Jewish historian’s work named Jewish Antiquities, he calls Jesus “a wise man, if it’s proper to call him a man … He was the Christ.” Josephus appears to describe Jesus’s divinity. But Josephus almost certainly didn’t write those words. All evidence suggests that they were added later. Josephus probably said something, but the very centrality of his opinion has erased it from our historical record as scribes changed the historian’s words. We don’t know what Josephus originally wrote here.
