Any Evidence For A Historical Jesus?

[Minimalist]

The correct answer is,well yes,since ask,there are shitloads of evidence for the the existence of an historical Jesus,starting with The new Testament. Same thing for the existence of gods; shitloads.

BUT,what there is NOT, for either, is ANY credible evidence or ANY proof.


'Evidence' is NOT synonymous with 'proof'

Absence of evidence is indeed evidence of absence,but not necessarily proof of absence. It IS a fairly reliable indicator,and is often used in science in that sense...

Well the OP did ask for sources outside the bible.

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Min will probably tear that one apart too.

No ancient writer ever heard of it. A bastardized version appears in the 5th century in the work Chronica by Sulpicius Severus which does not quote Tacitus as a source, in any case. No ancient writer xtian or otherwise links Nero to the Great Fire for which he supposedly punished all those xtians who magically appeared in Rome.

You also forgot Pliny the Younger probably the earliest Roman writer to mention xtians ( but not any "jesus") in a report to Trajan about what a bunch of wimps xtians were.