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Svartalf wrote:the Jewish traitor Flavius Josephus wrote his books to curry favor with Vespasian and Titus, I don't see whatother authors could have written that. I certainly did not notice such a qualification in Suetonius' Life of Vespasian, and Tacitus is full of later additions by bad authors.
Svartalf wrote:I'm more serious than one could expect. Why would Tacitus be discredited as a source?
Svartalf wrote:Myself too... I ought to revise my classics, I'm forgetting them.
Svartalf wrote:well, I'm here to see if there is anything new, credible and likely to learn about the historicity or inexistence of the man named jesus.
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Svartalf wrote:Isn't Tacitus close enough to count? He was not a novelist, but a real historian.
dogsgod wrote:Theories abound. Which theory is correct, or partially correct? How will we ever know and why should we care? Maybe that's the beauty in all of this; discussion for discussion sake.
True, however that does not rule out that there may have been one, we just have no way of knowing with what we have to go on.dejuror wrote:dogsgod wrote:Theories abound. Which theory is correct, or partially correct? How will we ever know and why should we care? Maybe that's the beauty in all of this; discussion for discussion sake.
Theories abound but there is one which is always flawed. The theory that Jesus of Nazareth was a figure of history cannot and has not been supported by any credible historical source.
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