Nietzschean
Pliny: http://www.request.org.uk/main/history/jesus/jesus06.htm
Josephus : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus
Tacitus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus
I was recently listening a religious radio broadcast show and a profess scholar/historian who happens to be Christians blurts out the 3 names I put above.
Now as far as I know Josephus was not a contemporary and simply wrote down what others had heard or said but he was not witness to said events.
Now I had to look up Pliny and what i manage to find about him was a letter that he had written asking what he should do with christian followers. He did not confirm nor was witness to Yeshua himself so I do not understand how his letter about how to handle civil issues confirms the historical Yeshua?
Tacitus, I guess was the recipient of the letter from Pliny.
I just want to ask everyone's views and see if you can nipick and tear apart his argument. I thought he was clown shoes the minute he said, how do we know Caesar was real or if the Holocaust took place as an argument of how one historical event is more valid over another.
Last I check there are letters written by Caeser, bust of his likeness contemporaries who wrote about Caeser from inside Rome and his political actions as well as, Governors, Senators, rival nations, Kings/enemies. I dont know, I really like to hear what you guys think and your views about this guys argument.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUQMJR2BP1w&feature=related
Josephus : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus
Tacitus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus
I was recently listening a religious radio broadcast show and a profess scholar/historian who happens to be Christians blurts out the 3 names I put above.
Now as far as I know Josephus was not a contemporary and simply wrote down what others had heard or said but he was not witness to said events.
Now I had to look up Pliny and what i manage to find about him was a letter that he had written asking what he should do with christian followers. He did not confirm nor was witness to Yeshua himself so I do not understand how his letter about how to handle civil issues confirms the historical Yeshua?
Tacitus, I guess was the recipient of the letter from Pliny.
I just want to ask everyone's views and see if you can nipick and tear apart his argument. I thought he was clown shoes the minute he said, how do we know Caesar was real or if the Holocaust took place as an argument of how one historical event is more valid over another.
Last I check there are letters written by Caeser, bust of his likeness contemporaries who wrote about Caeser from inside Rome and his political actions as well as, Governors, Senators, rival nations, Kings/enemies. I dont know, I really like to hear what you guys think and your views about this guys argument.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUQMJR2BP1w&feature=related