A 2025 book by Tom Schmidt contends that this author’s namesake Testimonium was entirely genuine, rather than containing a Christian interpolation. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Jewish historian who briefly discussed Jesus, John the Baptist, and James the Just in his Antiquities of the Jews.
ANSWER: Flavius Josephus [or Yosef ben Mattityahu; or Yoseph bar Mattityahu] (The book is Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ.)
[10h] Schmidt dismisses that possibility since this historian “refrains from making… changes to texts, even when they contradict the Bible” in works like his Onomasticon. This early Christian historian included a description of the Council of Nicaea in a near-hagiographic biography of Constantine the Great.
ANSWER: Eusebius of Caesarea [or Eusebius Pamphilius; or Eusébios tês Kaisareías; reject “Pamphilius”]
[10e] The Testimonium Flavianum appears in book XX of Antiquities of the Jews, the second chapter of which discusses a “great famine” in this city. Josephus described “a terrible battle” in this holy city, the capital of Judea.
ANSWER: Jerusalem [or Yerushaláyim; or al-Quds]
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