DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Christian copyists. Many Jews saw Josephus as a traitor for his conduct in the war with Rome, so they did not keep his books. Christians copied them instead, century after century.
Why it’s interesting
That is how his paragraph about Jesus could change on the way to us. Many scholars think a Christian scribe made it sound more like a believer had written it.
Scholarly consensus
Learn the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.