RE: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1)
November 22, 2014 at 7:39 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2014 at 7:44 pm by Minimalist.)
Quote:it would be difficult to write about the history of the Jews in first century Palestine and not mention Jesus is some way, shape, or form
Not if your boy jesus was a second century invention, it isn't.
Since we have no evidence of his sorry ass from the first century it looks more and more like he's just a later brain fart.
Oddly, enough...according to Photius Justus of Tiberias did write a history of the jews in the first century and noted:
Quote:Justus was a Jewish historian of the first century. His name doesn't appear in the list of possible sources because there are no surviving copies of his work. However, Photius, a 9th century Patriarch of Constantinople, tells us that he made no mention of Jesus. This statement is often distorted by citing only half a sentence and claiming it was an expression of 'surprise' on the part of Photius: but, as the full text shows, it is nothing of the sort.
"I have read the chronology of Justus of Tiberias, whose title is this, [The Chronology of] the Kings of Judah which succeeded one another. This [Justus] came out of the city of Tiberias in Galilee. He begins his history from Moses, and ends it not till the death of Agrippa, the seventh [ruler] of the family of Herod, and the last king of the Jews; who took the government under Claudius, had it augmented under Nero, and still more augmented by Vespasian. He died in the third year of Trajan, where also his history ends. He is very concise in his language, and slightly passes over those affairs that were most necessary to be insisted on; and being under the Jewish prejudices, as indeed he was himself also a Jew by birth, he makes not the least mention of the appearance of Christ, or what things happened to him, or of the wonderful works that he did.
No wonder the criminal jesus freaks copied the forged TF and allowed Justus' work to fall into oblivion!
