(April 24, 2014 at 6:35 pm)Lek Wrote: The problem is that if someone brings up something like the writings of Josephus, someone will say that they were tampered with or some such thing.
Mainly because they were. If that's a problem, maybe the question needs to be addressed as to why Josephus is brought up as evidence at all. Why the need for them to be tampered with in the first place, if there was contemporary evidence for the JC character?
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