• frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    In terms of literary evidence there is exactly 1 historian who is roughly contemporary and mentions Jesus

    Misinformation.

    There’s Tacitus’s Annals (year 117), Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews (93-94), Mara bar Serapion’s letter to his son.

    Seutonius (Lives of the Twelve Cæsars) and Pliny wrote about the conflict between the Romans and the followers of Christ (or Chrestus) around that era.

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      10 days ago

      You are the one who is doing the misinforming. All of the sources you mention, except Josephus, were written up to more than a century after his supposed existence. With Josephus being written around half a century after his existence.

      And as mentioned, the specific quotes from Josephus are of a dubious nature.