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First attestation for the Testimonium Flavianum?
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:06 pm
by lsayre
Who first attested to the presence of the Testimonium Flavianum, and in roughly what year did they do it?
Re: First attestation for the Testimonium Flavianum?
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:20 pm
by Ben C. Smith
The first noncontroversial attestation for the Testimonium is from Eusebius, early century IV. It appears thrice in his writings, once in the Demonstration of the Gospel (AD 311?), again in the Theophany (AD 324?), and again in the History of the Church (AD 325?).
Re: First attestation for the Testimonium Flavianum?
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:27 pm
by lsayre
Thank you Ben!!!
Re: First attestation for the Testimonium Flavianum?
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:27 pm
by Ben C. Smith
No problem. You can access a pretty complete list of all the witnesses to the passage here:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2812#p62626.
ETA: The
textus receptus is just what the manuscripts, all medieval, have; and Origen is, if anything, a witness
against the passage. So we start with Eusebius.