Evidence for Jesus outside the Bible?

[Justtristo]

Bart Ehrman is quoted as saying, "I don't know any serious historian that doubts the existence of Jesus."

Ehrman does say that. And then he goes on to show that he has no more evidence for the godboy than anyone else. When he trotted out Josephus I knew he had jumped the shark.

However, we cannot expect him to support a position which would put him out of work eventually.

It could also be the nature of the whole "historical jesus" studies community, who are composed mostly of believers of some sort of another or if they are not are fearful of retaliation by those believers if they claim Jesus Christ was a totally mythical character.

To give an example Richard Dawkins when he came to Australia last year said that it was likely Jesus never existed and the biblical studies community came out against him.