Defending the Theistic View  Posts tagged “Myth  Jesus, the
brother of James, son of Damneus  Recently, I have posted a
defence of the partial authenticity of Josephus’ Testimonium
Flavianum and the complete authenticity of the so-called “James
passage.” — Even though, at least to my knowledge, I dealt with
the relevant objections to their authenticity there is at least
one more objection which I decided to cover here. — It has to do
with the James passage.  It is an indesputable fact that the
majority of scholarly opinion supports the authenticity of the
clause “Jesus, who was called Christ” in the James passage. But
there is one more objection that, all though I have never taken
it seriously except for this blog post, should be cleared up.
Kenneth Humphreys, while mentioning this passage, mentions in
passing that in the same paragraph there is another man named
Jesus, the son of Damneus and then indicates that this man is
James’ brother, not the Jesus of the Bible. (Antiquities 20:
200) Though Humphreys do