Let's be clearer. There are innumerable scholarly reconstructions of Josephus' "original words about Jesus" and the bulk of them are differ significantly from, and are usually shorter than, the traditional text.
There is history writing, and there is historiography. Josephus has a clear purpose that he lays out in each of the introductions to his literary works. Talking about and explaining history has, in fact, changed a great deal in the "modern" era when compared to the "ancient" era. But this is...
She wouldn't have to either. She could blame herself. Just like we do.
[Watchmen=quote]200 hundred years from now I hope someone reads your post and rolls their eyes, wondering what weirdo believed tetonic plates are the cause of Volcanoes and Earthquakes.
Ha! Absolutely.
Why would Josephus' views need to be aligned to the Bible? The reason people see a Christian interpolation here relates to the purpose of the Antiquities generally, and the presentation of Pontius Pilate specifically.
In the Antiquities, Pilate is shown to subvert Jewish practices and...