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UndercoverElephant wrote:

nunnington wrote: the striking parallels between the story of Jesus' ministry in the gospels and the historical facts of the Flavian war in Judea

doesn't mean the Flavians or other Romans concocted or wrote the Christian narrative/s.

There is, however, good scholarship that argues that Christian narratives use and reflect aspects of tropes and history of aspects of the Roman Empire and persons therein, including the Flavians and other emperors, and the works of Josephus.