Word: josephus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Josephus Long, assistant director for administration and finance at UHS, said yesterday his request that Peoples not return to work until further notice is not a suspension...
...sales of $198 million in fiscal 1976, far below its 1973 earnings peak of $11.2 million. A year ago, Hefner hired Daniels, 48, a vice president of the Knight-Ridder chain. Daniels is a onetime newspaperman (city editor, the Miami Herald) and grandson of the late North Carolina publisher Josephus Daniels, who was Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson. He was reluctant to take on Hefner's problems but was wooed by the Chief Rabbit's salary offer of $250,000 annually, plus a $225,000 bonus...
...South has long been a land of first-rate newspaper editors and second-rate newspapers. Ralph McGill of the Atlanta Constitution, Josephus and Jonathan Daniels of the Raleigh News and Observer, Harry S. Ashmore of the Arkansas Gazette, Hodding Carter of the Delta Democrat-Times and other Southern editors became more distinguished for the strength of their convictions than the quality of their coverage...
Pines considers it probable that the newly discovered passage was at least partially written by Josephus. His colleague at Hebrew University, Comparative Religion Professor David Flusser, regards its authenticity as certain. But the two agree in thinking that the new passage derives from a quotation of Josephus in an early edition of an ecclesiastical history by Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, a commanding figure of 3rd and 4th century Christianity. In a later edition of his history, they speculate, Eusebius inserted instead the traditional Testimonium Flavianum because it was more in keeping with the Christian conception of Jesus. Only the fact...
...irony is that whoever tinkered with the original Josephus passage -whether it was Eusebius or some other eager apologist-ended up making Josephus' testimony suspect to later generations. In his zeal to refashion Josephus' Jesus in the Christian mold, the tamperer succeeded only in weakening the credibility of the text-even as proof of Jesus' existence...