Testimonium Flavianum

Josephus on Jesus - mentions of Jesus of Nazareth in the writings of 1st-century historian Flavius Josephus. This book is the 1154^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 880^th most popular book in Estonian Wikipedia. Article “Testimonium Flavianum” in Estonian Wikipedia has 33.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.75 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Estonian) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Testimonium Flavianum” was edited by 1 authors in Estonian Wikipedia (5635^th place) and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Testimonium Flavianum”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Estonian Wikipedia and edited by 1049 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Josephus on Jesus is on the 880^th place in local ranking of books in Estonian Wikipedia and on the 1154^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Estonian Wikipedia and cited 689 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Estonian): #3643 in October 2012
• Global: #2172 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Estonian): #11149 in September 2023
• Global: #25018 in October 2014

There are 23 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Josephus on Jesus		100
2	Swedish (sv) Jesusomnämnandena hos Josefus		100
3	Hebrew (he) העדות הפלוויאנית		76.5721
4	Dutch (nl) Flavius Josephus over Jezus		70.1306
5	German (de) Testimonium Flavianum		55.7943
6	Esperanto (eo) Testimonium Flavianum		40.6797
7	Italian (it) Testimonium Flavianum		38.0936
8	Polish (pl) Testimonium Flavianum		37.333
9	Indonesian (id) Tulisan Yosefus tentang Yesus		36.0353
10	Estonian (et) Testimonium Flavianum		33.193

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Testimonium Flavianum" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Josephus on Jesus		3 380 516
2	Spanish (es) Testimonio flaviano		255 697
3	Portuguese (pt) Testimonium Flavianum		184 784
4	Swedish (sv) Jesusomnämnandena hos Josefus		153 641
5	German (de) Testimonium Flavianum		114 281
6	Italian (it) Testimonium Flavianum		104 461
7	French (fr) Testimonium flavianum		100 784
8	Dutch (nl) Flavius Josephus over Jezus		88 492
9	Polish (pl) Testimonium Flavianum		88 448
10	Hebrew (he) העדות הפלוויאנית		43 030

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Testimonium Flavianum" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Josephus on Jesus		26 410
2	Swedish (sv) Jesusomnämnandena hos Josefus		1 032
3	Portuguese (pt) Testimonium Flavianum		795
4	Spanish (es) Testimonio flaviano		706
5	French (fr) Testimonium flavianum		642
6	German (de) Testimonium Flavianum		627
7	Italian (it) Testimonium Flavianum		462
8	Polish (pl) Testimonium Flavianum		377
9	Indonesian (id) Tulisan Yosefus tentang Yesus		290
10	Dutch (nl) Flavius Josephus over Jezus		289

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Testimonium Flavianum" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Josephus on Jesus		431
2	French (fr) Testimonium flavianum		94
3	German (de) Testimonium Flavianum		90
4	Hebrew (he) העדות הפלוויאנית		73
5	Italian (it) Testimonium Flavianum		71
6	Spanish (es) Testimonio flaviano		49
7	Dutch (nl) Flavius Josephus over Jezus		44
8	Swedish (sv) Jesusomnämnandena hos Josefus		40
9	Polish (pl) Testimonium Flavianum		38
10	Portuguese (pt) Testimonium Flavianum		36

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Testimonium Flavianum" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Josephus on Jesus		3
2	Arabic (ar) يوسيفوس عن يسوع		2
3	German (de) Testimonium Flavianum		2
4	Spanish (es) Testimonio flaviano		1
5	Estonian (et) Testimonium Flavianum		1
6	French (fr) Testimonium flavianum		1
7	Italian (it) Testimonium Flavianum		1
8	Polish (pl) Testimonium Flavianum		1
9	Catalan (ca) Testimoni flavià		0
10	Czech (cs) Testimonium flavianum		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Testimonium Flavianum" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Josephus on Jesus		274
2	Korean (ko) 요세푸스의 예수		92
3	Czech (cs) Testimonium flavianum		86
4	Indonesian (id) Tulisan Yosefus tentang Yesus		56
5	Spanish (es) Testimonio flaviano		26
6	Swedish (sv) Jesusomnämnandena hos Josefus		23
7	Italian (it) Testimonium Flavianum		21
8	French (fr) Testimonium flavianum		17
9	German (de) Testimonium Flavianum		16
10	Hebrew (he) העדות הפלוויאנית		14

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic يوسيفوس عن يسوع
ca	Catalan Testimoni flavià
cs	Czech Testimonium flavianum
da	Danish Testimonium Flavianum
de	German Testimonium Flavianum
en	English Josephus on Jesus
eo	Esperanto Testimonium Flavianum
es	Spanish Testimonio flaviano
et	Estonian Testimonium Flavianum
fr	French Testimonium flavianum
he	Hebrew העדות הפלוויאנית
id	Indonesian Tulisan Yosefus tentang Yesus
it	Italian Testimonium Flavianum
ko	Korean 요세푸스의 예수
lt	Lithuanian Testimonium Flavianum
nl	Dutch Flavius Josephus over Jezus
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Testimonium Flavianum
pl	Polish Testimonium Flavianum
pt	Portuguese Testimonium Flavianum
ro	Romanian Testimonium Flavianum
sv	Swedish Jesusomnämnandena hos Josefus
tr	Turkish Josephus'un eserinde İsa
uk	Ukrainian Testimonium flavianum

Best Rank

Estonian: #11149 09.2023

Global: #25018 10.2014

Best Rank

Estonian: #3643 10.2012

Global: #2172 09.2001

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