Where did the Jesus myth come from?

[Justtristo]

They do?

http://vridar.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/1...f-silence/

Silence: Why did no-one until modern times deny the existence of Jesus?

Ehrman spends a few pages at the beginning of his Chapter Four on the old canard which too many historicists seem to think is a knockout blow against the mythicist theory: that no one in all the documents we possess from the earliest period right up to the 18th century ever suggests, or deals with an accusation, that Jesus never existed. A moment’s reflection ought to reveal why this might be the case. (There are in fact a handful of notable exceptions to this silence that I will go into shortly, which puts the lie to Ehrman’s sweeping statement.)

Yep.

I had one asshole claim that the fact that there were no Greco-Roman writings against xtianity was proof that even the Romans knew it was all true. I pointed out to him that xtian thugs burned down the libraries of antiquity so his statement was the height of chutzpah...equivalent to the old definition of a man murdering his parents and then asking for mercy because he was an orphan.

Oddly, a couple of xtian writers did salvage a couple of Greco-Roman blasts at xtianity in the hope of "refuting" them. They failed to refute much of anything but they did demonstrate that Greco-Roman writers were out there pointing out that their cult was a pile of shit.

Robert M Price on one of his Bible Geek podcasts, talked about a about in a dialogue between Justin Martyr and a rabbi named Trypho. Dr Dr Price mentioned that somewhere in this dialogue Trypho asserted that Christians invented the character of Jesus. I would bet that more ancient writers thought the same as Trypho, however their works have not survived.