# Ancient account of Jesus challenges centuries of scholarly doubt: ‘Totally authentic’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ancient-account-of-jesus-challenges-centuries-of-scholarly-doubt-totally-authentic/
- Published: 2026-10-30T12:00:27+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-30T15:05:37+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Far right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/travel/ancient-account-jesus-challenges-centuries-scholarly-doubt-totally-authentic
- Topics: Americas, World

## Key points

- T.C. Schmidt argues Josephus’s disputed passage about Jesus is authentic.
- His analysis compares five language traditions and Josephus’s writing style.
- The passage reports early followers’ belief in Jesus’s resurrection.

## Summary

Scholar T.C. Schmidt argues that a disputed passage about Jesus in the ancient historian Josephus’s writings is authentic, challenging the view that Christian scribes substantially altered it. If his case is accepted, the passage would offer an early non-Christian account supporting some historical details about Jesus.

Schmidt compared versions in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Armenian, and used linguistic and computer-assisted stylistic analysis to argue that its phrases resemble Josephus’s other writing. The passage describes Jesus as a wise man who attracted followers and was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and reports that his followers believed he rose on the third day. Schmidt says Josephus reported that belief without affirming the resurrection himself; the article presents his findings, not a settled scholarly consensus.

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