(March 9, 2014 at 5:08 pm)discipulus Wrote:(March 9, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Beccs Wrote: "Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (/ˈtæsɪtʊs/; c. AD 56 – after 117)"
AS we say, there are no CONTEMPORARY citations for the life of Jesus outside the bible.
LOL....this is a favorite mainline of internet infidels....
No academic would use it, but I will humor you by asking.....
So what? What reference do you have regarding the historiographical methodology that can substantiate your assertion that a necessary condition of historical reliability of an account of someone's life is that there be contemporaneous accounts of said person?
So, you can't truly answer that?
The Romans kept records very well, but there are no records of the dead rising from their graves, for one thing.
Like Deirdre, I have no problem with the concept that Jesus, the man, or someone like him existing and giving rise to the stories. BUT I have a problem with a book that has several versions of the same story being cited as fact.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
