Page "Josephus on Jesus" Paragraph 110

The twenty year gap between the writing of the Jewish Wars and the Antiquities has also been used to explain some of the differences in tone between them.

Clemens Thoma provides an explanation for this based on the observation that Josephus may have learned of the details of the actions of Annanus in the twenty year gap between the writing of the Jewish Wars and the Antiquities, and thus avoided a positive tone when writing of Ananus in the Antiquities.