MERGED: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1) & (Part 2)

[Minimalist]

Yes, because news never traveled along the trade routes, did it?

You're getting desperate. How come he knew about Pilate's other "crimes." Did he take a field trip to Jew-town?

It's not desperation. Aside from the distances, Philo was a Hellenized Jew, and Hellenized Jews were generally ostracized by the orthodox Jews in Judea. Therefore, news may not have traveled as well as you think.

Also, your argument may work for the Christian version of Jesus who walked on water, rose from the dead, etc, for such feats would indeed spread like wild-fire in those times.

But your argument utterly fails against a mere historical person, who's fame would be limited to his immediate vicinity.

I don't give a shit about that but in his catalog of the crimes of Pilate it seems remarkable that Philo would not have mentioned the crucifixion of one who "multitudes" of jews were hailing as god.

as he feared least they might in reality go on an embassy to the emperor, and might impeach him with respect to other particulars of his government, in respect of his corruption, and his acts of insolence, and his rapine, and his habit of insulting people, and his cruelty, and his continual murders of people untried and uncondemned, and his never ending, and gratuitous, and most grievous inhumanity.

So much more effective to have a real murder to talk about rather than the generalized crap which we see he presented to Caligula. Perhaps that part of the myth had not been written before Philo's death...c 50 AD. Maybe that's why Caligula threw the Alexandrian Jews out on their asses?