Arthur Drews

“ Let us begin with the witnesses in Jewish literature. Here we at once encounter the singular circumstance that Philo (30 B.C. to 50 A.D.) makes no reference to Christ. Philo, the Alexandrian philosopher and contemporary of Jesus, was by no means a secluded scholar who took no interest in the fortunes of his people. ”

“ Justus wrote a chronicle of the Jewish kings down to the time of Agrippa II. The original work has been lost. We know it only from a reference in Photius, a patriarch of Constantinople of the ninth century. Photius assures us, however, that he read through the Chronicle of Justus in search of references to Jesus, and found none; he attributes it to “the disease”—that is to say, the unbelief—of the Jews that such a man as Justus does not mention the appearance of Christ, the fulfilment of the prophecies by him, and the miracles he wrought. ”

“ Volkes [im Zeitalter Jesu Christi] , 4th ed. III, p. 678, etc.↑ Gfrörer, Philo und die Jüd [isch] .-Alex [andrinische] Theosophie, 1835.↑ M [oriz] Friedländer, Der vorchristliche Jüd [ische] Gnosticismus, 1898, p. ”