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why is there nothing written about his life or death by Jews or Romans who lived at the same time as Jesus? PLEASE prove me wrong Don't mention Josephus because he lived much later,

2006-07-06 12:31:58 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

I will research Tacitus and Pliny. Aristolte lived well before Jesus and in Greece. And I believe the most original gospels were written in Greek, a language not familiar to Aramaic-speaking fishermen,

2006-07-06 12:41:04 · update #1

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hmm..try tacitus, Pliny,etc....they recored Jesus being crucified...yet, we have WAY more info on JESUS...then lets say Aristotle, Caeser, Plato..our copies of their original writings are 500-1000 years old!! Yet, we have copies of the original gospel manusripts that are less thant 50 years from the orignals!! Gospels writers were GREAT historians...yet you need faith and not prove to believe. peace.

2006-07-06 12:36:01 · answer #1 · answered by esero26 3 · 3 5

This is an interesting question. I think some of these answers are right...that with as much as was going on in this ancient society, who gave a care about a heretic Jew? Most people didn't give a flip about the Jews in the first place, most considered Israel a cesspool that reject soldiers got sent to. It wasn't until the movement of the Church actually started to spread after Saul (later Paul) struck out at the Church that the larger parts of society even started to hear about Jesus.

There are records of the early church from secular history. Even though they're not direct records of Jesus, they do prove that Christianity started and it must have started by someone. That someone was passed on through the written & oral teachings of the apostles & others.

2006-07-06 19:47:00 · answer #2 · answered by Lizzy Loco 1 · 0 0

That's a VERY good question. One small correction: Josephus was born within a couple of years of the date usually given for Jesus' death - so I'm not sure I'd say he came "much" later. On the other hand, Josephus also testified about all manner of silly goblins and mythical creatures, so you have to take what he wrote with a grain of salt. In addition, what he did write has been "heavily edited" and who knows what agenda those editors had.

I was more interested in a couple of snippets that appear in Jewish writings of the time. But even those are very uninformative - more os less amounting to blurbs on the execution of a man named Yeshu. Unfortunately this was a very common name and it's hard to adduce anything from it. (And they certainly don't mesh with the gospels.)

So all in all, while he might have existed, the evidence is very shaky.

2006-07-06 19:58:08 · answer #3 · answered by JAT 6 · 0 0

That time in history was a brutal time for anyone not Roman. The area that is now Europe and Northern Africa was under Roman occupation.If you were against them you were killed for the most part.The public display of crucifixion was supposed to be a deterrent.Jesus was a man who was against the Roman way and had followers who protested through peaceful means which tied the hands of the Romans. So they for the most part made up charges to do away with him.Jews an Romans weather they believed in Jesus or not stayed quiet. Similar to today's Iraqis who had to live under Saddam and had to stay quiet or be punished severely

2006-07-06 21:54:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

So silly. And culturally stuck in time.

You act as though it was a culture based around the written word. Such a few people in that time wrote or read anything. The culture was largely transmitted orally.

But I'm sure if you find any "newspapers" from that era and locale, you'll probably find stories about the troublesome preacher named Jesus. How's that? Do you have written records of everyone else who lived during that era in that land? I'm just curious. I don't hear anyone questioning the existence of any other religious leaders of the time. Did people even write about such things? I mean, outside of religious documents and writings. Are you asking questions that seem reasonable, putting aside your preconceived notions?

Think about what documents you'd normally expect to find writings about someone who was executed for his teachings. Very few. What writings we have are fairly significant for someone who never made big waves in political or military circles.

2006-07-06 19:35:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

jews and roman dont wright about people they thought where scum and exucuted unless they really cause a lot of havoc if you where they roman govenor of judea would you write about some poor bum you exucuted after you already probably exucuted 100 bums the week before no you would not it would be a waste of valuable paper at the time and you dam sure would not right it in stone the romans had no reason at all to wright on this day we killed jesus son of joseph and marry , carpenter and jew desident he not do anthing crazy enough to be written about take spartucus for example the romans killed him and his slave revolt but he was worth writing about he killed roman citizens and wreaked havoc in the counrty side did jesus kill any one or wreak havoc no so there fore not worthy to be written about in the eye of roman govenor just some poor bum the high priest wanted killed so romans killed him and that that

2006-07-06 19:40:23 · answer #6 · answered by abramelin_the_wise_mage 3 · 0 0

jesus wasn't assisinated, he was sentanced to death for "claiming to be the son of God" which at the time was considered blasphemy. but the big reason why they killed him wasn't only because he claimed to be the son of God but that he claimed each and everyone of us could be just like him. he never seperated himself as a 'superhuman' but he understood a level of consciousness through God and became a master of reality. Most of His gospels are teachings to people about how we can achieve the power of God and that we can all be just as benevolant as He.

but as a society they were scared and were raised on fearing God and fearing the govoners of the land so it never seemed pheasable for the people to try to practice his methods of mastering reality through the holy spirit.

basically he was saying that nothing can seperate us from God and God is all things, with this level of thinking he was able to create miracles, and followers and had intentions of changing the church and it's teachings which was a huge threat to the government of that time so they killed him because that change would have changed the world.

2006-07-06 19:44:39 · answer #7 · answered by dangerwheel 2 · 0 0

Because the Jews and Romans did not believe that he was the son of God.

2006-07-06 19:34:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

how many people did the Romans crucify in the Middle East? they didn't give a flying flip about Jesus, to them He was just some guy in the middle of Jewish politics.

2006-07-06 19:37:08 · answer #9 · answered by cirque de lune 6 · 0 0

There is a difference between being assassinated and being executed, first off.
People were crucified rather frequently. It seems natural that people who did not think him a diety or prophet wouldn't care to take particular note of him.

2006-07-06 19:35:44 · answer #10 · answered by Jerry O 1 · 0 0

Just recently, some of Pontius Pilates official records were discovered.
They speak of Jesus and his sentencing.
But the real question is, why does it matter to you?

2006-07-06 19:34:42 · answer #11 · answered by truebeliever_777 5 · 0 0

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