The Resurrection of Christ: Would a Jewish Historian Have Preserved a 2,000-Year-Old Testimony?
New research reignites the debate over a passage from Flavius Josephus, written at the end of the 1st century. This Jewish historian may have recorded information dating back to the first witnesses of the Risen Christ
Nearly two thousand years after the events in Jerusalem, an ancient testimony continues to challenge historians. This Friday, October 30, 2026, the Daily Mail revisits a study published in August by Spanish researcher Jesús Fernández-Pedrera Correa, focusing on a controversial passage from Flavius Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews. Behind what appears to be a technical question—namely, the authenticity of a few Greek lines—lies a matter of considerable historical significance: could an author outside Christianity have preserved, as early as the 1st century, the memory of the first affirmations regarding Jesus’ Resurrection?
