(February 2, 2018 at 4:31 pm)Minimalist Wrote: But you are adding in facts which are not in evidence.
And Josephus mentions several would-be messiahs ( troublemakers, in his view ) who did exactly what you originally proposed and got themselves killed for their trouble. Somehow, this "jesus" fucker did not make the cut.
A 1st century chronicaller of not necessarily the most serious and scrupulous intent is unlikely to have gone through the trouble of conducting and presenting an exhaustive survey, even just to the degree feasible in a fractured and largely illiterate society in turmoil.
