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Didn't you just make my point for me? You are debating why Josephus mentioned Jesus's execution, not whether he did or not. True, we don't really know whether his account had been altered before we got to it, but we're never going to have that certainty.
No. I conceded a point to show how your idea still doesn't work "even if everything we have from him was unaltered,".
We have two passages from this man.
One that refers to James the Brother and contains the exact turn of phrase that Matthew uses in 1:16 "legomenos Christos" "so-called Annoited one". Given the complete context of the passage and the exact quote of the Bible it is most likely a fraud. We know that there was a tradition that James was killed and we have a page that talks about a James and another guy named Jesus. To make it refer to James the Just would take a two words addition. It doesn't even make sense since it requires James to be very old, for a known hertic to be appointed head of the temple, and for the general population (who were hostile to James) to be upset that he died, and James to be descended from the temple priest clan which means he can't be from David line, a claim he would have had to defend for his brothers claim of son of god status. None of it works.
The second passage is so obviously fraud even religious scholars don't defend it. It expressed 2nd century Trinity ideas, it isn't in Josphius writing style, it doesn't fit in the context of the chapter, it goes against Messianic ideas that Josphius had, it isn't written the same way he describes other Messiahs, and describes Jesus in glowing terms that no religious Jewish person would use.
My point was even if we somehow someway accept that Josphius really did write this stuff in 71AD it still doesn't get us anywhere since he could have just been repeating what Christians told him without doing any work of verification.