What forms of written communication existed in Jesus day and did they mention his cruxifiction?

Answer 1

Mayans and other civilizations had writting thousands of years before Jesus...but they never heard of Jesus

...God forgot to tell them.

Answer 2

In Jesus' day (and for centuries before) things were written on leather scrolls.
Luke 4:17 gives an example.
Copies of what we call the OT were kept in Jerusalem and a few more important synagogues had copies as well.
Some mention the messiah would die.
Daniel 9:25,26
Isaiah 53:12
Matthew 16:21

Answer 3

"Jeebus is my rectum" is very sadly mistaken. I can show you quotes from Josephus, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, Thallus (quoted by Julius Africanus), etc. I won't list all of them here since that would take too much space. But I will give you these.

Josephus was a very important Jewish historian of the first century. He was a priest, a pharisee, and somewhat egotistical. Most importantly he was NOT A CHRISTIAN. (Therefore he had no reason to lie about it) Look into his books "The Antiquities" and the "Testimonium Flavianum".

In Josephus' book "The Antiquities" you will find that he describes how a high priest named Ananias took advantage of the death of the Roman governor Festus-who is also mentioned in the NT- in order to have James killed. This work was completed in A.D. 93 which is approximately 63 years from the time of Jesus' ascension, which is considered very early and thus reliable.
He says, "He convened a meeting of the Sanhedrin and brought before them a man named James, the brother of Jesus, who was called the Christ, and certain others. He accused them of having transgressed the law and delivered them up to be stoned."

The Testimonim Flavianum says this," About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who wrought surprising feats and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Christ. When Pilate, upon hearing him accused by men of the highest standing among us, had condemned him to be crucified, those who had in the first place come to love him did not give up their affection for him. On the third day he appeared to them restored to life, for the prophets of God had prophesied these and countless other marvelous things about him. And the tribe of Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared."

Answer 4

The Old Testament was written down on various media including scrolls and tablets. The story of Jesus was recorded by his Apostles and also written down. The Bible speaks about how God will make sure that his Word will be preserved through the ages.

"But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." 1 Peter 1:25

The history of the English version can be found on various websites.

Answer 5

Both Pliny (a letter writer in Latin) and Josephus (a Jewish historian who wrote for the Romans) mention Jesus' crucifixion.
EDIT:
However, one should not write off the four gospels, all of which are universally eld to have been written in the first century (the century in which Jesus lived) - so cannot be attributed to "legend". Moreover, a fragment of the Gospel of Matthew was discovered a few years ago, according to Time magazine, which shows evidence of having been written before 50 AD, because of the type of ink and paper used.
- I forgot to mention - I believe tacitus also mentions him - but I can't be sure if my memory serves me right.
One must remember that Palestine was an out-of-the way "backwoods" of the Roman empire, and Jesus' ministry was limited to the "house of Israel" only, leaving th4e evangelisation of the nations to his disciples. So it is not surprising that there was not all that much mention of him made in writings of his time. HOwever after the year 100, many mentions were made in the Roman empire official writings, to Christians, who preached Jesus crucified and risen from the dead, because the message spread extremely quickly. Too quickly for a mere lie, or legend.

Answer 6

nope.

the historians and writers of the day don't even mention him. Here is a list of writers and historians who lived within the same century as the Jesus myth:

Caius Suetonius, Josephus, Philo-Judæus, Seneca, Pliny Elder, Arrian, Petronius, Dion Pruseus, Paterculus, Juvenal, Martial, Persius, Plutarch, Pliny Younger, Tacitus, Justus of Tiberius, Apollonius, Quintilian, Lucanus, Epictetus, Hermogones, Silius Italicus, Statius, Ptolemy, Appian, Phlegon, Phædrus, Valerius Maximus, Lucian, Pausanias, Florus Lucius, Quintius Curtius, Aulus Gellius, Dio Chrysostom, Columella Valerius Flaccus, Damis, Favorinus, Lysias, Pomponius Mela, Appion of Alexandria, Theon of Smyrna, Justus of Tiberias.

NONE of them even mention him...If jeebus were such a sh!t-stirrer, having such a profound impact on so many people, performing all these amazing miracles, etc, why didn’t any of these prominent historians or writers even make mention of him?

there's some food for thought...

It is only a MYTH. At best. That's all it has ever been.

Answer 7

Actually yes they did, the New Testament would be the main one, its made up of letters to different church's, but there was another letter written by a roman soldier to a roman leader speaking about a new group of rebels that had arosen nicknamed christians, which were started by a man who was crucified not so long ago.

Answer 8

The Jews used Aramaic as main language using Hebrew for religious purposes, the Romans spoke Latin as native tongue but Koine Greek was a primary 2nd language in the Roman Empire.

Jews primarily spoke to each other in Aramaic with Romans primarily speaking to each other in Latin but Jews and Romans often spoke to each other in Koine Greek.

When Christ was nailed to the Cross, Pilate the Roman Procurator had: Jesus of Nazareth King of The Jews written in Aramaic, Greek and Latin.

Answer 9

When Jesus talked about the Scripture He was talking about the Old Testament. The Old Testament had prophecy about the crucifixion.

Answer 10

Written communication was well developed in the roman empire.
And yet nobody outside the bible bothered to write about Jesus. Couple of paragraphs that Christians usually mention are either well established forgeries or simply say something like "and there are these people who call themselves Christians who worship certain Jesus". Duh.