Yikes. As I wade through stuff, I've got the FoxNews channel on (as is my wont) and Michael Baigent is on the O'Reilly Factor, promoting his new book and claiming to be a historian. If he says "As a historian ..." again, I'm going to gag. For the record, he really didn't say anything of interest other than he rejects references to Christianity in Josephus (with the inflated claim that 'no historian believes them') on the basis that the earliest manuscript is from the 1200s. While one could contest that claim alone, the logic doesn't quite work insofar as he does accept Tacitus, whose manuscript tradition isn't signicantly (for the purposes of this argument) different. By the way, Baigent's degree is in psychology ... I realllllllly resent that people are allowed to claim themselves to be 'historians' just because they look up something old. Putting together something from IKEA doesn't make me an engineer ... heck, even teaching mathematics at the grade school level doesn't make me a mathematician ...