Submitted by Boris (not verified) on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 10:34pm.
The only historians that could tell us about Jesus Christ were the historians that lived and recorded events during the time when Jesus supposedly lived. Like Philo for example, who lived in an around Jerusalem during the first half of the first century. Philo wrote extensively about first century Palestine and we have much of his work. Needless to say Philo never mentioned such a person as Jesus Christ, his disciples or the movement supposedly spawned from his ministry. Neither do any other of about forty Jewish and Roman historians who lived during that period that we have accounts from. Christian apologists have to resort to reports about the activities of Christians from second century historians like Pliny, Tacitus and Suetonius the earliest being from 112 CE. This is almost a century after the supposed time of Jesus and none of them mention Jesus Christ by name anyway. This is the reason no secular historians write about a historical Jesus. Historians need evidence to write about history. Stories involving angels, demons, Satan and miracles and containing dialog are not historical narratives. They are fiction. Every student of literature and history knows this.
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The only historians that could tell us about Jesus Christ were the historians that lived and recorded events during the time when Jesus supposedly lived. Like Philo for example, who lived in an around Jerusalem during the first half of the first century. Philo wrote extensively about first century Palestine and we have much of his work. Needless to say Philo never mentioned such a person as Jesus Christ, his disciples or the movement supposedly spawned from his ministry. Neither do any other of about forty Jewish and Roman historians who lived during that period that we have accounts from. Christian apologists have to resort to reports about the activities of Christians from second century historians like Pliny, Tacitus and Suetonius the earliest being from 112 CE. This is almost a century after the supposed time of Jesus and none of them mention Jesus Christ by name anyway. This is the reason no secular historians write about a historical Jesus. Historians need evidence to write about history. Stories involving angels, demons, Satan and miracles and containing dialog are not historical narratives. They are fiction. Every student of literature and history knows this.