> independent sources > comes from two or three authors that wrote biographies josephus wasn't independent, he was a flavian propagandist who worked for vespasian and was trying to frame recent history to make vespasian seem like a miraculous leader with an edict from god to destroy the jewish temple when he was writing about jesus. > talking about vespasian yea and you can still find his direct writings and the roman colosseum he built still stands unlike anything the carpenter built or wrote (if he was even literate).
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