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Originally Posted by jigg
This has been beat to death. Yet again an atheist on a crusade with the truth, and he just so happens to have a book for sale. Not much different from rabid evangelicals who hold the truth too. And he has a cheap site to boot..
Jewish historian Josephus mentions Jesus. Roman historian and senator Tacitus wrote about about the execution of Jesus. Then there's the Munich Talmud
?On the Eve of Passover they hung Jesu the Nazarine. And the herald went out before him for 40 days [saying]: ?Jesu the Nazarine will go out to be stoned for sorcery and misleading and enticing Israel. Any who know [anything] in his defence must come and declare concerning him.? But no-one came to his defence so they hung him on the Eve of Passover.?
Now whether he was what the bible describes him to be is another matter, considering how mistranslated and manipulated it is...
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There are convincing arguments on all sides, with the Tacitus reference being possibly the strongest proof that at least 50 years after the death of YbN his legend was well established. The oldest manuscript of that passage is from like the 11th century though, and was held in an abbey.