Oh, I forgot to tell you. He'll probably trot out Suetonius, Tacitus, Josephus ( although that is a forgery) and maybe Pliny the younger.
These are all second century writers.
Philo of Alexandria d c 50 AD was a commentator on Jewish affairs and living during the very period that xtians claimed their boy was marching around performing miracles. Philo never heard of him, although he did hear of Pontius Pilate and wrote a letter to the Emperor Gaius ( Caligula) in which he detailed Pilate's crimes but somehow killing the "messiahh" did not make the list. Perhaps Philo considered that "padding?"
Pliny the Elder wrote a Natural History in which he recounts loads of mythical bullshit from all across the Empire but somehow never heard about a criminal executed by a Roman magistrate who came back from the fucking dead. Pliny died in 79 AD at the eruption of Veusius having lived through the whole xtian period.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( 1 BC - 65 AD) was later the victim of certain forged letters between himself and the so-called Paul. Nonetheless, in his authentic writings Seneca does not seem to know who the fuck jesus was.
These are all second century writers.
Philo of Alexandria d c 50 AD was a commentator on Jewish affairs and living during the very period that xtians claimed their boy was marching around performing miracles. Philo never heard of him, although he did hear of Pontius Pilate and wrote a letter to the Emperor Gaius ( Caligula) in which he detailed Pilate's crimes but somehow killing the "messiahh" did not make the list. Perhaps Philo considered that "padding?"
Pliny the Elder wrote a Natural History in which he recounts loads of mythical bullshit from all across the Empire but somehow never heard about a criminal executed by a Roman magistrate who came back from the fucking dead. Pliny died in 79 AD at the eruption of Veusius having lived through the whole xtian period.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca ( 1 BC - 65 AD) was later the victim of certain forged letters between himself and the so-called Paul. Nonetheless, in his authentic writings Seneca does not seem to know who the fuck jesus was.
