About this episode
Aaron Renn interviews T.C. Schmidt about new evidence regarding the authenticity of Josephus's passage about Jesus.
In this episode, Aaron Renn interviews T.C. Schmidt, associate professor at Fairfield University and author of the groundbreaking Oxford University Press book Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ. Schmidt, with a PhD from Yale, uses new linguistic analysis, computer databases, and ancient Greek studies to argue that the Testimonium Flavianum—Josephus's famous passage about Jesus—is substantially authentic. This challenges a century of scholarly consensus that it was heav...
People in this episode
Host: Aaron Renn
Guest: T.C. Schmidt
Topics covered
- Jesus history
- linguistic analysis
- scholarly consensus
- ancient texts
- Testimonium Flavianum
Keywords
- Jesus
- Josephus
- Testimonium Flavianum
- linguistic analysis
- scholarly consensus
- ancient Greek
- Oxford University Press
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Fairfield University, Oxford University Press
Books & works: Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ
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