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Modern scholarship overwhelmingly views the entire passage, including its reference to " the brother of Jesus called Christ ", as authentic and has rejected its being the result of later interpolation.

Moreover, in comparison with Hegesippus ' account of James ' death, most scholars consider Josephus ' to be the more historically reliable.

However, a few scholars still question the authenticity of the reference, based on various arguments, but primarily based on the observation that various details in The Jewish War differ from it.