Josephus & Jesus
New Evidence for the
One Called Christ
Coming Summer 2025! This book brings to light an extraordinary connection between Jesus of Nazareth and the Jewish historian Josephus. Writing in 93/94 CE, Josephus composed an account of Jesus known as the Testimonium Flavianum. Despite this being the oldest description of Jesus by a non-Christian, scholars have long doubted its authenticity due to the alleged pro-Christian claims it contains. The present book, however, authenticates Josephus’s authorship of the Testimonium Flavianum and then reveals a startling observation: Josephus was directly familiar with those who put Jesus on trial. Consequently, Josephus would have had access to highly reliable information about the man from Nazareth. The book concludes by describing what Josephus tells us about the Jesus of history, his miracles, and his resurrection.
—T. C. Schmidt (PhD, Yale University)
Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, James Madison Program (Fall 2025)
Associate Professor, Fairfield University (Fall 2025)
What Scholars Are Saying
An astonishingly new intervention into what had seemed to be a settled consensus…[an] erudite study
— Annette Yoshiko Reed, Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Harvard Divinity School
An extraordinary scholarly achievement… impressive philological acumen
— Tobias Hägerland, Senior Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
“[A] gripping read and triumph of careful philology that will change views of the importance and reliability of this long-debated passage. It certainly changed mine.
—Jack Tannous, Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University