Antiquities of the Jews. And the negative view toward Ananus in Antiquities of the Jews is consistent with that general shift.17 Thus, the authenticity of the “James Passage” should stand and with it the historical reality of Jesus and his brother James, a pillar of the Jerusalem church (see Acts 15; cf. Gal. 1:19; and of course the book of James itself). Without question the most controversial ancient testimony and the most important witness to the historical Jesus comes
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