Also Tacitus, Pliny, Lucian & the Babylonian Talmud. In the end it boils
down to faith.
Alan C
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From: Collin B
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Subject: Re: Solidarité!
Simply because the four biographers were not always in simultaneous
attendance.
Besides, there are plenty of non-Biblical writings of the times to
corroborate the Gospels.
Alan C
Let's not overstate our case. Knarf caught that.
There are not many extra-biblical "writings" available. Josephus makes
mention, but that from a distance.
And we have only a couple of fragments from late first century NT documents.
But there is a good number of artifacts.
The "Pilate stone" is a fairly recent find and is the most significant
extra-biblical evidence of him.
That comes despite the Roman propensity to document everything. There are
others as well.
(The skeptical approach being that, without evidence, a thing should be
questions. Lack of evidence is evidence of lack, so they say.
This approach makes the mistake of applying empirical/inductive methods to
the abductive nature of historical inquiry. )
The discussions around the James ossuary continue. It looks to be genuine,
but the arguments from both sides appear inconclusive at this point.
Even with the small amount of material there is still more on Jesus than on
Aristotle & Plato, and many others.
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