Quote:Of course there was a movement that started Christianity.
The trick there is to figure out when "jesus" enters the mix. The earliest Roman source, Pliny the Younger, speaks only of Christ ( christos ) in the first decade or so of the 2d century AD. No, "jesus" anywhere. Suetonius, writing a bit later, mentions Chrestus in Claudius and Christians in Nero but still...nobody names "jesus." Even Tacitus...which is probably a much later forgery does not mention "jesus."
Chrestus was a Greek slave name - meaning "good."
Christos was the Greek transcription of the Hebrew Mosiach meaning "Anointed One" and is thus more a title than a name.
T'is a mystery.