(June 5, 2015 at 9:24 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Why are historians ignoring the huge elephant in the room?????
ART
There is no contemporary art of any jesus, and nearly every household had pottery. If Jesus was so great of a man with such miracles, he would have been as well known as he claims in Jerusalem. First century art would have been alive with such depictions of the "son of god." But oxen and carts seem to be the more popular theme..
If you were an artist and wanted to paint something that told a story and would sell to people who had "experienced" a miracle of meeting jesus, why would you paint anything else?
And so they did...if not on pottery at least on wall art. The earliest known depiction of the godboy is from the Eastern town of Doura Europus.
This c 240 AD, shows "jesus" (beardless and wearing a toga!) healing the paralytic.