(January 13, 2012 at 2:53 am)Xavier Wrote:(January 13, 2012 at 2:43 am)Minimalist Wrote: No.
Roman sources do not even begin to notice xtians until the 2d century.
I know that but but you'd think some non Christian writers would have written evaluating the historicity of Jesus in the 4th and 5th century when it became the main religion of the empire.
Oh, my. You do understand that in the 4th and 5th centuries non-christians were being persecuted by the jesus freaks, right? As noted above, anything they did write would be destroyed and they themselves killed by the followers of the prince of "peace."