Evidence: The Gathering

[abaris]

And your silly new books prove nothing except that you are willing to pay Acharya S and Richard Carrier to tell you what you want to hear.

You know what, Randy? As opposed to you, these people at least know the basic ropes when it comes to evaluating historical sources. You on the other hand have proven repeatedly that you don't know anything besides blindly trusting sources confirming your opinion. If asked, you either miss the point by a lightyear of you wave the question away as irrelevant because you don't know the first thing about the methodologies employed and the multitude of problems when dealing with written sources from different periods or oral history.

That's why you missed the purpose of my question about the Vita Karoli, since you're not able to look beyond the obvious.

Edit: As I see, you had another outburst, it would do you some good to understand Tacitus in his historical context and how a historian goes about evaluating him as a source. But I guess I might be just as well talking to a wall. In fact, the Ehrman quote I mentioned earlier in this very thread could give you some clues. But, seeing that you keep repeating the same unchecked bullshit over and over, still employing the good old copy paste, I won't hold my breath.