Titus Flavius Josephus (37 - c. A.D. 100),[2] also called Joseph ben Matityahu ( Yosef ben Matityahu)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus
Notice that Josephus was born 5 years after Jesus died.
There is a contradiction in some of his writings concerning Jesus that many scholars deem a forgery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus#Arguments_against_authenticity
And now Caesar, upon hearing the death of Festus, sent Albinus into Judea, as procurator. But the king deprived Joseph of the high priesthood, and bestowed the succession to that dignity on the son of Ananus, who was also himself called Ananus. Now the report goes that this eldest Ananus proved a most fortunate man; for he had five sons who had all performed the office of a high priest to God, and who had himself enjoyed that dignity a long time formerly, which had never happened to any other of our high priests. But this younger Ananus, who, as we have told you already, took the high priesthood, was a bold man in his temper, and very insolent; he was also of the sect of the Sadducees, who are very rigid in judging offenders, above all the rest of the Jews, as we have already observed; when, therefore, Ananus was of this disposition, he thought he had now a proper opportunity. Festus was now dead, and Albinus was but upon the road; so he assembled the sanhedrin of judges, and brought before them the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James, and some others; and when he had formed an accusation against them as breakers of the law, he delivered them to be stoned: but as for those who seemed the most equitable of the citizens, and such as were the most uneasy at the breach of the laws, they disliked what was done; they also sent to the king, desiring him to send to Ananus that he should act so no more, for that what he had already done was not to be justified; nay, some of them went also to meet Albinus, as he was upon his journey from Alexandria, and informed him that it was not lawful for Ananus to assemble a sanhedrin without his consent. Whereupon Albinus complied with what they said, and wrote in anger to Ananus, and threatened that he would bring him to punishment for what he had done; on which king Agrippa took the high priesthood from him, when he had ruled but three months, and made Jesus, the son of Damneus, high priest.[14]
The above quotation from the Antiquities is directly contradicted by the equivalent historic account given in the Jewish Wars, that does not mention the martyrdom of James and cites the death of Ananus as the reason for the beginning of the destruction of Jerusalem. From the surviving fragments of The Jewish Wars: "I should not be wrong in saying, that with the death of Ananus began the capture of the city, and from that very day on which the Jews beheld their high priest and the guardians of their safety, murdered in the midst of Jerusalem, its bulwarks were laid low, and the Jewish state overthrown."
Isaac Mayer Wise believed that while the passage itself was historically accurate, the phrase "who was called Christ" was the addition of a Christian transcriber.[16] Notable freethinker John Remsburg in his 1909 book, The Christ agreed the "who was called Christ" passage was a 3rd century addition citing the then popular view based on a c. 170 CE work by Hegesippus that put the death of James the Just at c. 70 while the Josephus account puts it at c. 64.[17][18][19][20] Remsburg's theory that the passage was added in as a marginal note by a Christian copyist and later incorporated into the main text by a later copyist was reiterated by George Albert Wells in 1986
