Question: Who was Josephus? What did he say about the women of Jerusalem during the siege by Titus?
Much debate, sometimes very heated, surrounds the fact (or as some would say otherwise) of the historical Jesus.
The controversy took on new impetus in the 17th Century, when individuals and groups with vested interests to promote, used their not inconsiderable influence to promote the idea that the Jesus of the Bible was a myth of the making of the early Church, and not worthy of serious consideration by ‘serious’ people!
Others had much more serious motives for disputing Jesus, such as many Jewish groups, who only wished/wish to adhere to the ‘Torah’.
Leaving aside the fact that the present ‘Torah’ is not the original up to the time of Ezra, the Jewish lobby has become one of the most vociferous voices against Jesus of Nazareth of the New Testament (NT).
That is not surprising, as John the Baptist, Jesus and the Apostle Paul berated the Jewish Hierarchy of the day for adhering to the Pharisaic writings, instead of the Originals given to Moses etc. It is recorded and well known by the Jews that the Pharisees in particular were "very flexible" in their interpretations of Torah, and this is confirmed by the Qumran Scrolls. Of the main 'schools', or Groups of the day, the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Essens; the Pharisees became dominant, and at the time of the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, only the "Judaism of the Pharisees", known as "Rabbinic Judaism" prevailed!
See:
Josephus: His Ref. to Jesus, "The Wonder Worker":
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