Lost:
If your memory is so short that you forgot that you argued that a Josephus passage referred to someone else named Jesus—not the one Christians revere, but to false messiahs of the same name—and you were totally WRONG
mP:
The text clearly says jesus was the son of damneus within the same paragraph. There is nothing else in that paragraph that could not be someone else. there were many joshuas back then, because its a popular name and an approrpiate title for anyone wnating to be a leader.
You completely ignored and failed to comment on the father of jesus being wrong. Its really bad writing to refer to one character and then without qualifying the name being used tell us the father of another character with the same name. I dont think josephus was unskilled or uneducated. Its much easier to understand this jesus is someone else.
BTW: Good too see you do not attempt to quote or link or anything because if anybody reads the text its clear you are lying and wrong. You delibrately only present the first half of the paragraph because the entire chapter is about jesus the son of damneus who was a real person according to josephus.
Anyone can read the entire chapter, and see for themselves the jesus mentioned is never jesus son of god, and it makes no sense to talk and use his first name with qualification to refer to one characeter and then slip in a line about jesus of nazareth without letting the reader know its a different person.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Antiquities_of_the_Jews/Book_XX#Chapter_9
so he assembled the sanhedrim of judges, and brought before them the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James, and some others, [or, some of his companions]; 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 [Agrippa], 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 sanhedrim without his consent. [24] 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.