You seem for some unaccountable reason to assume Eusebius was the hypothetical interpolator. That just makes your thoughts more untenable.Above, spin, I did answer your questions 1 and 2: yes, Eusebius knew about both and had access to both. Your question 3 is, to borrow your word, unfalsifiable.
But one could at least ask, if you allow it, that if you think he interpolated in Antiquities, War presented an opportunity, and closer to Jesus' time, too, in which Eusebius could have added his (legit, imo) view that some Jerusalem Christians fled to Pella, as a way of saying Christians did not fight Rome--something useful in his context.
If Josephus in Antiquities mentioned John Baptist and James brother of Jesus, how much more so Jesus.
And, if I may add, when researching what Origen knew about Josephus, consider, if you wish, that Origen had a pretty good library, and, what is sometimes overlooked, he also had lots of conversations with Jews about Jesus, in conversations plausibly bringing up Josephus.
Say hi to your cat.
I didn't assume who might have been the interpolator, merely showed the problems with your assumptions. No, you didn't answer any of my questions. You just misunderstood what you were trying to respond to, getting hung up on Eusebius.
Statistics: Posted by spin — Sun Oct 27, 2024 1:19 pm