Why is it the Romans have detailed descriptions of every battle of the Roman-Jewish war, but nothing about?

Question

the execution of Jesus?

Answer 1

to those that quoted Tacitus his accuracy on the subject is quite suspect considering that he was not even born until 20 years after the supposed death of Jesus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Jesus


also the description of Jesus by Josephus has been proven to been corrupted by Christian scribes especially when compared to copies kept in Muslim lands.

Answer 2

Josephus, the historian, wrote about Jesus. However, from what I've learned, general Roman society just wasn't interested in Jewish spritutal leaders from the 'barrios'. The Jews were just seen as middle/lower class citizens. The Romans had their own beliefs and culture to practice, and Jesus just didn't seem like a political or social threat to them, for the most part. We was helping the poor, the ill and the broken, and notsomuch with the eilte, rich and upper class.

Answer 3

jimmyiiixxx is correct, there is Roman evidence of Jesus' execution.

"Reporting on Emperor Nero's decision to blame the Christians for the fire that had destroyed Rome in A.D. 64, the Roman historian Tacitus wrote:

'Nero fastened the guilt . . . on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of . . . Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome.'

What all can we learn from this ancient (and rather unsympathetic) reference to Jesus and the early Christians? Notice, first, that Tacitus reports Christians derived their name from a historical person called Christus (from the Latin), or Christ. He is said to have "suffered the extreme penalty," obviously alluding to the Roman method of execution known as crucifixion. This is said to have occurred during the reign of Tiberius and by the sentence of Pontius Pilatus. This confirms much of what the Gospels tell us about the death of Jesus."

Note to Gratvol: Just because a historian was born after a fact does not discount the veracity of a fact. We have historians today writing about US history from the Revolution, and as long as they report the facts from that period, they will not be discounted.

Answer 4

Because the execution of Jesus was an execution, of a condemned man who was considered a criminal. It was not a battle of war.

The Jewish historian Josephus did record it in detail.

Answer 5

Tacitus the Roman wrote that the followers of one "Chrestus"(Christ) were causing trouble.Flavius Josephus writes in his "Antiqueties",that "Jesus and his followers were good men who went about doing good deeds"...He was a contemporary of the Apostle Paul,but was not a believer nor ever was.He was there at the destruction of Jerusalem.
Understand,Jesus was a blip on the radar to the Romans.It was 3 years,mostly spent in Northern Israel,Galilee etc. When you read,he only visited Jerusalem rarely,the rest of the time he was with the Jewish "Hillbillys" up North.

Answer 6

To the Romans, Jesus was just another insignificant trouble maker. They didn't view Him as anyone of importance. They executed countless people. Why would Jesus have been any different?

Answer 7

Why would the Romans write a detailed account of the execution of what to them was just one more man among the many thousands they executed? His death was the pivotal event in the history of the human race, but His killers didn't know that.

Answer 8

The reason they didn't document the execution of Jesus was that they didn't deem it important enough to document.

Jesus wasn't the only self-proclaimed messiah of his time. There were countless men claiming to be the Son of God.

To the Romans, Jesus of Nazareth was just another self-proclaimed messiah, nothing more.

Answer 9

He was just another rebellion leader put down, there was no reason to document it. The romans documented the war in Israel because it didnt go down so easily, despite the fact that they won.

Answer 10

At the time Jesus Christ was just another of the thousands of Jewish people crucified.

The Romans didn't even care that he claimed to be the Jewish Messiah. It was the Pharasees who were upset about that.

After his resurrection he was the one who got away.

A Roman soldier who let his prisoner escape, even a dead one, was put to death.

The Roman soldiers who were guarding Jesus' tomb were told to just lie and say that the disciples stole his body and then they were given their freedom. If the disciples had really stolen the body the Roman soldiers would have been put to death.

The disappearance of Jesus' Christ's body must have been a great embarrasement to them, insinuating that the Roman soldiers could not properly do their jobs, and yet they knew that it was really not the soldier's faults. It was divine intervention heralded by angels.

It was alluded to in Roman History. You can read about it in Lee Strobel's "The Case For Christ"