[shhrubbery!]

Thanks, I hadn't heard that. Will have to do some reading up on Josephus and the lastest 'scholarship.'

[Americathy]

Unfortunately nearly all modern scholars deny anything that points to the historical Jesus. For example, they question the Pilate of the Bible because it doesn't fit their speculations based on pieced together historical information. If you read a history of Pilate you'll find it is based on very little information, just pieces here and there, but they hold those pieces as more accurate than the Biblical record. Why?

[sauropod]

Neither had i actually.