Posted: Feb 27, 2010 3:07 am
jerome wrote: If you mean contemporary sources: sure, there are none. Take any 5 analogous figures from Josephus and try to find contemporary sources...
Exactly. We know of Theudas, the Egyptian, the Samaritan Prophet and several others solely from Josephus. Yet no-one questions their historicity. We know of Jesus from Josephus and several other sources and yet we're told he is "invisible to history"? WTF?
What we see at work here, ladies and gentlemen, is irrational, ideologically-driven bias. And that's deadly to the proper analysis of history.