(July 31, 2015 at 8:30 pm)Nestor Wrote: The name from which we in the English world derive "Jesus" was common in ancient Palestine... well, yeah, no shit.Except the bible doesn't call him Jesus and leave it there, it names him as Jesus of Nazareth. Naming someones town like that in the ancient world was like giving a surname. The issue is we know from records was no town by the name of Nazareth, and the current site was uninhabited then. So no jesus of Nazareth and therefore no historical Jesus.
"An impartial historian... is obliged to extract truth from satire, as well as from panegyric." - Edward Gibbon.
Unfortunately, the author of that site is clearly neither impartial, nor, by extension, reliable; the conclusion he wishes to reach does not logically follow from the historical curiosities he presents (of which, by the way, he forgets to express even the slightest doubt).
Same old amateurish mythicist apologetic as always.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
