(April 28, 2019 at 8:53 am)Succubus Wrote:(April 28, 2019 at 8:47 am)emilsein Wrote: Thallus wrote a history of the eastern Mediterranean world since the Trojan War. Thallus wrote his regional history in about AD 52.6 Although his original writings have been lost, he is specifically quoted by Julius Africanus, a renowned third century historian. Africanus states, ‘Thallus, in the third book of his histories, explains away the darkness as an eclipse of the sun—unreasonably as it seems to me.’ Apparently, Thallus attempted to ascribe a naturalistic explanation to the darkness during the crucifixion. So Thallus must've lived in the area at the time, right? So he's writing from memory
I see you finally got his name right. Read this and get back to us.
That's pretty interesting. So basically we now have nobody but Josephus and even he's sketchy and wrote nothing of the darkness myth. If these Christian apologestics were mucking around with facts and changing things to fit their narrative, why didn't they go way farther and get scribes and just make up way more to sale the Christ?
