(February 23, 2019 at 7:52 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Jesus of Nazareth existed as an historical person; he was a Jewish apocalyptic prophet, one of many of his day. That is why no pagan author took notice of him or even considered him worth mentioning; they recognized him as being just another crank.
I think it is impossible to say whether Jesus of Nazareth is really traceable to any single historic person, or if he is mainly a fictional amalgamation of traits already in individual circulation to overawe the gullible.
