Nav wrote:
Hey I'll take any documented reference from 1 AD to 50 AD...

I'm waiting...



Horvath wrote:
Just read "The Annuls of Imperial Rome" by Tacitus. Chapter 14.

That should be Chapter XIV. Don't they teach retired military officers
anything?

If you want historical references to Jesus, Tacitus (as mentioned above,
not sure about the chapter), Seutonius, Josephus... there are at least a
dozen writers who have not been incorporated into the Bible because
their references were entirely secular, and usually rather vague.

OTOH the people who knew Jesus personally and wrote about him were
mostly incorporated into the Bible. That doesn't make them false;
although I have seen it claimed that the Gospels were cooked up in Rome
in the 100 ~ 200 AD era, or variously 250~300 in Byzantium, as a
political ploy. This is not consistent with other known historical facts
IMHO.

*If* you are interested (an unlikely assumption), the Isaac Asimov tome
is probably the best & most inclusive study in one book... and it's only
about 1200 pages.

DSK