Submitted by Jay Rogers (not verified) on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 7:34pm.
Boris,
The percentage of historians today who accept that Jesus was a historical person is almost 100 percent.
Can you even name ANY who do not? Can you name two or three credentialed historians who teach at the university level who claim Jesus never existed?
The only Roman historians who lived in the first century who wrote existing works about the history of the first century are only four in number.
Tacitus, Suetonius, Plutarch and Josephus.
All lived in the first century. All wrote about Jesus except for Plutarch.
Plutarch wrote only about Roman and Greek statesmen.
There were other writers during this time who mentioned Jesus who are NOT historians such as Pliny. Then there are other writers who were contemporaries of Jesus who don't mention him, but they wrote no history. Period. In fact there are only those four who wrote Roman or Jewish history who have works surviving today.
Philo did NOT write extensively about first century Palestine. He lived in Alexandria. He wrote mainly allegorical commentaries on the books of Moses and some letters.
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Jesus never existed?
Boris,
The percentage of historians today who accept that Jesus was a historical person is almost 100 percent.
Can you even name ANY who do not? Can you name two or three credentialed historians who teach at the university level who claim Jesus never existed?
The only Roman historians who lived in the first century who wrote existing works about the history of the first century are only four in number.
Tacitus, Suetonius, Plutarch and Josephus.
All lived in the first century. All wrote about Jesus except for Plutarch.
Plutarch wrote only about Roman and Greek statesmen.
There were other writers during this time who mentioned Jesus who are NOT historians such as Pliny. Then there are other writers who were contemporaries of Jesus who don't mention him, but they wrote no history. Period. In fact there are only those four who wrote Roman or Jewish history who have works surviving today.
Philo did NOT write extensively about first century Palestine. He lived in Alexandria. He wrote mainly allegorical commentaries on the books of Moses and some letters.