The First Century Void

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10th century or 12th, it's still at least the better part of nine hundred years after the fact. Plenty of room for a little 'creative accounting'; especially when you throw people with access to original documents and an agenda into the mix.

But we are only allowed to assume that creative accounting in one direction right? 
Also... still looking for evidence for these claims.

What incentive would Origen have had to ignore the TF if it had existed?  It would have clinched the case he was trying to make in Contra Celsus.  Instead he was forced to blame the destruction of Jerusalem on the execution of "James the Just."

Richard Carrier's On The Historicity of Jesus is the first and so far only book which examines all the evidence relating to the godboy stories.  You can read it if you dare.  I suspect you will run the other way in terror.  You know the old adage about leading a horse to water.......