Editing Josephus on Jesus (section)

=== Slavonic Josephus ===
{{Main|Slavonic Josephus}}
The three references found in [[wikisource:The Antiquities of the Jews/Book XVIII|Book 18]] and [[wikisource:The Antiquities of the Jews/Book XX|Book 20]] of the ''Antiquities'' do not appear in any other versions of ''[[The Jewish War]]'' except for a [[Church Slavonic language|Slavonic]] version of the ''Testimonium Flavianum'' (at times called ''{{lang|la|Testimonium Slavonium}}'') which surfaced in the west at the beginning of the twentieth century, after its discovery in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century.{{sfn|Van Voorst|2000|p=85}}{{sfn|Creed|1932}}

Although originally hailed as authentic (notably by [[Robert Eisler]]), it is now almost universally acknowledged by scholars to have been the product of an eleventh-century creation as part of a larger ideological struggle against the [[Khazars]].{{sfn|Bowman|1987|pp=373–374}} As a result, it has little place in the ongoing debate over the authenticity and nature of the references to Jesus in the ''Antiquities''.{{sfn|Bowman|1987|pp=373–374}} [[Craig A. Evans]] states that although some scholars had in the past supported the ''Slavonic Josephus'', "to my knowledge no one today believes that they contain anything of value for Jesus research".{{sfn|Chilton|Evans|1998|p=451}}