Quote:That would be quite a find, since he lived in obscurity up until the last three years if his life.
Again, you (probably deliberately) miss the point. It doesn't matter if your boy was ALIVE....what matters is that there were other writers who were ALIVE and did not hear of him.
You are giving us the classic xtian paradox. At one and the same time you insist that he was a fucking nobody that no one paid any attention to BUT he was also so fucking dangerous that the High Priests had to break every rule in the fucking book to hold a trial on Passover. Make up your mind.
A writer, like Philo, who died c 50 AD and commented extensively on Jewish affairs, never heard of a condemned criminal who came back to life and was hailed as the fucking messiah in Philo's own lifetime? Grow up.