Editing Josephus on Jesus (section)

==== Comparison to Philo's works ====
[[Steve Mason (biblical scholar)|Steve Mason]] has argued for partial authenticity for the ''{{lang|la|Testimonium}}'', because no other parts of any of the works of Josephus have been contested to have had scribal tempering, Christian copyists were usually conservative when transmitting texts in general, and seeing that the works of [[Philo]] were unaltered by Christian scribes through the centuries strongly support that it is very unlikely that the passage was invented out of thin air by a Christian scribe. Philo often wrote in a way that was favorable to Christian ideas and yet no Christian scribes took advantage of that to insert Jesus or Christian beliefs into Philo's text.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mason |first1=Steve |title=Josephus and the New Testament |date=2011 |publisher=Baker Academic |isbn=978-0-8010-4700-8 |pages=232–233 |edition=2nd}}</ref>