The written records as evidence

[Aractus]

Who's 'we' white man?

You may be satisfied stating that, but blithely lumping everyone together as if it's an unassailable certainty goes too far.

Edit: This^, is in response to the question of a historical Jesus.

Again, I'm talking about the things widely accepted that historians are certain about. For instance they're quite certain about the Holocaust. Just because there may be a few crazy people out there who disagree, doesn't change large overwhelming consensus’s.

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Um no, there is no contemporary outside evidence during the alleged time of the character's existence.

Um, yes there is - what do you call this?



Here's more:





Those are from the time of Christ, then we also have plenty more from the time of the disciples (when the NT books were originally written) like this:



Caiaphas Ossuary
Yehohanan Ossuary


And of course plenty of valuable material from the 2nd century as well like this:



No contemporary outside evidence my arse.