Yale PhD | Princeton University Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program (2025-2026) | Fairfield University Associate Professor
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Today is the US launch of Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford). The book, however, is already SOLD OUT! Oxford is printing new copies. Due to a generous donor, you can get a free digital copy at josephusandjesus.com
My book *Josephus and Jesus* is now Amazon's #1 Best Seller in Christianity. Thank you to all who helped make this happen!
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1.7 million views in 24 hours for my interview on Josephus and Jesus! Many thanks to @SatAmericaFNC and @kayleighmcenany for making the interview happen.
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✝️ DID BELIEF IN THE RESURRECTION BEGIN IMMEDIATELY?
@ProfTCSchmidt says an ancient account of Jesus challenges the theory that his disciples' belief in the Resurrection developed generations later.
He explains to @KayleighMcEnany why the timing matters.
Thanks to Kayleigh Mcenany (@kayleighmcenany) for having me on her show @FoxNews @SatAmericaFNC
to talk about my book *Josephus and Jesus* today, it went great--and Noah and his ark even got a shout out!
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I'll be live on Fox News @FoxNews with Kayleigh McEnany @kayleighmcenany for Saturday in America (@SatAmericaFNC) in about 5.5 hours (10:50 a.m. eastern time). We'll be talking about my Josephus and Jesus book. Check it out! I'll try to post a link afterwards.
And another article
New study shows the Jewish leaders who condemned Jesus helped preserve evidence of His Resurrection
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Nice to see my work continuing to get attention
My Josephus and Jesus book is #4 on Amazon's best-selling books on Christianity – totally flummoxed how it's possible for a $100 book that can be downloaded for free on the book website to be ranked that high, but here we are.
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Here is the direct YouTube link to my Fox News interview on my Josephus and Jesus book.
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You can download a free copy at Josphusandjesus.com made possible in part by the generosity of the Institute for Christian Reflection instituteforchristianreflect…
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We don't need the hype headline to discover some great news from @ProfTCSchmidt's findings. No manuscript was found. Josephus wrote his passage on Jesus around AD 93; the copies we have are medieval. The headline mixed up the age of the words with the age of the parchment.
The better news is is that T.C. Schmidt (Fairfield University) compared the Josephus passage across five ancient translations and traced its phrasing, line by line, to Josephus’s own style and the evidence available to Josephus, arguing persuasively that the passage is authentic and communicates what Christians claimed even while Josephus remained skeptical. His findings are shaking up decades of scholarly opinion that the passage was largely fabricated or heavily doctored by Christian copyists.
That matters because Josephus wasn’t a Christian. He was a Jewish historian writing for Rome, within living memory, and he records Jesus: was considered a wise teacher and the messiah, was condemned to the cross under Pilate, and his followers believed they had seen him risen from the dead.
Hype hurts the very case it tries to help. When a sensational headline gets debunked, the gospel looks like it needs exaggerating. It doesn’t. “By the open statement of the truth” we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience (2 Cor. 4:2). Jesus’ story doesn’t need inflating. It needs telling, accurately.
Written account of Jesus rising from the dead identified in 2,000-year-old manuscript, study suggests trib.al/caFpzVT
I was interviewed on Fox News about my *Josephus and Jesus* book
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You can download a FREE copy of the book at the book website josephusandjesus.com
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Pir Natal (Christmas mat) from the Asmat people of Indonesian Papua. Showing Mary giving birth in a traditional Asmat forest camp. Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes.
Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search.
greekdrama.johnhboyer.com
Professor Daniel Schwartz of Hebrew University has just published in the Journal of Jewish Studies a 24-page review article on my book, *Josephus and Jesus*.
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Professor Schwartz is the first academic reviewer, to my knowledge, to state his disagreement with my conclusions about the authenticity of Josephus's testimony about Jesus (the Testimonium Flavianum), but he is still complimentary, he writes:
“To conclude: although Schmidt's erudition and arguments are impressive, I still tend to believe that the TF proclaims Christian beliefs.” He also adds that I provide “a detailed and well-informed study of some details of Judaean prosopography of the first century, one that is valuable for its own sake.”
I am honored that such eminent scholars have taken so much time in responding to my book. Daniel Schwartz, Steve Mason, and James Carlton Paget have combined to write over 50 pages in their academic reviews. What is more is the fact that all three have approached the task with admirable clarity and charity, having understood and fairly portrayed my arguments. Mason stated that my arguments for authenticity were “strong” and Paget wrote that my argument is the “best case” hitherto made for authenticity.
I am gathering and going through all the reviews thus far written and am finding them very stimulating. I hope to incorporate them into some kind of second edition or follow-up article in the future.
My Josephus and Jesus book is now freely available on archive.org
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I'm very much looking forward to being part of the Tyndale House World of the Bible conference on Saturday October 24th. Live stream tickets are available
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I look forward to attending (rather than speaking at) the Tyndale House World of the Bible conference on Saturday 24 October in Cambridge, which is also available on livestream worldwide.
Hear about the New Testament, William Tyndale and the date of Christmas from Dirk Jongkind, Tony Watkins and Tom Schmidt. Link below.
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The Wall Street Journal's Opinion YouTube channel posted a video about my *Josephus and Jesus* book
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