The only mention of Jesus by any non-Christian historian writing in the first century is Josephus, who wrote hundreds of pages of very detailed descriptions of that time period of Israel. In all that, he has only a brief mention of Jesus.
30 years ago after I had studied Greek in college (one year as a personal interest class), I looked up Josephus in the library to see what he had written and found a collection of his writings that had the Greek on one page and an English translation on the opposite page. When I got to where he was supposed to have mentioned Jesus, it wasn't there. The book's editor noted that
that passage does not exist in the original Greek, but rather it first appeared much later in an Old Church Slavonic translation and that it appears to have been inserted at that time long after Josephus had lived.
In other words, Josephus didn't mention Jesus.
BTW, Old Church Slavonic is the forerunner of Russian and a number of other Slavic languages, much as Latin developed into the Romance language family.
Edited by dwise1, : No reason given.
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