Writings during the lifetime of Jesus?

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And the supposed godboy's Ideas were far from revolutionary, even at those times.

Please accept my apology for getting off topic. I hope you might change your mind about my motives when you find the reason I ask questions is because I really do want to know what others believe and why. Sometimes I ask questions to which I think I already know the answer. Sometimes I'm surprised to find I don't really know what I thought I knew.



My thought is that, claims of miracles aside, Jesus did say some things that were extraordinary and, perhaps even crazy. For example:

 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’  But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,  that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous."

(Matthew 5)


I don't know of any great thinker, or authority in the Medditerainian area prior to Jesus who taught that one should love, rather than hate an enemy. But what do you think?