Why is there not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus.....?

Question

...........not one, not by the Romans, the Jews none, zero. all accounts of Jesus were written after his death.

There are lots of records about other events that were happening at the time. There are accounts of Gaius Sulpicius Galba becoming consul and how Roman law replaced Celtic customs in Gaul.

In the year 33 AD there are detailed accounts of a financial crisis in Rome, due to poorly chosen fiscal policies. Land values plummeted, and credit is increased. These actions lead to a lack of cash, a crisis of confidence, and much land speculation. The primary victims are senators, knights and the wealthy. Many aristocratic families are ruined. This is all well documented but nothing about a man rising from the dead.

Why is this ?

Surely there would be many many acounts of a man who performed miracles, rose people from the dead and rose from the dead himself.

Surely the Romans who kept meticulous records would have documented in detail these events.

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Please provide links to the documents that back up your claims.

Thank you

Answer 1

Read and study the bible, Old Terstament and the New Testament so that you will know what you are asking. and understand correctly whether those verses is future tense, present tense or past tense.
do not just jump to conclusions espeically when it is wrong conclusion.
jtm

Answer 2

What can be said about the historicity of Jesus? Many writers, such as Renan, have attempted to write his biography but failed, failed because no materials for such a work exist. If Jesus was an historical person, how is it that not only does the Talmud never mention him but Paul's Epistles do not tell a single special fact about the life of Jesus? Read the other Epistles of the NT. Nowhere in any of the early Christian documents do we find even the slenderest reference to the mere man Jesus, the historical personality as such, from which we might infer that the author had a close acquaintance with him. His life, as described in the gospels, seems to have been entirely unknown to the authors. His speeches and sayings are hardly ever quoted and where this is done, as in the Epistle of James or the Book of Acts, they are not quoted as sayings of Jesus.

What can Josephus or Tacitus prove? They could at the most merely show that at the end of the 1st century not only the Christians but their traditions and Christ-myth were known in Rome. When the latter originated, however, and how far it was based on truth, could not be discovered from Tacitus or Josephus.

Some writers are notable for what they didn't say about Jesus: Philo was born before the beginning of the Christian era and lived until long after the reputed death of Christ. He wrote an account of the Jews covering the entire time that Christ is said to have existed on earth. He was living in or near Jerusalem when Christ's miraculous birth and the Herodian massacre occurred. He was there when Christ made his triumphal entry in Jerusalem. He was there when the Crucifixion with its attendant earthquake, supernatural darkness, and resurrection of the dead took place--when Christ himself rose from the dead. Yet, these events were not mentioned by him.

Under the reign of Tiberius the whole earth, or at least a celebrated province of the Roman empire, was allegedly involved in a preternatural darkness of three hours. Yet, Seneca and Pliny the Elder, who recorded all the great earthquakes, meteors, comets, and elipses they could find and who lived during the period of Jesus, failed to mention the event.

Justus of Tiberius was a native of Christ's own country, Galilee. He wrote a history covering the time of Christ's reputed existence. This work perished, but Photius, a Christian scholar and critic of the 9th century, was acquainted with it and said, "He (Justus) makes not the least mention of the appearance of Christ, of what things happened to him, or of the wonderful works that he did" (Photius, Bibliotheca, Code 33).

Answer 3

There isn't much. There is a lot of non-biblical ancient accounts but most were written much later (Some in excess of 70 years after Jesus' death)

The link I provided is about the only honest non-biblical accounts. However the statements were written only a few after Jesus’ Death and could still have been ancient tabloid like tale. Many non-biblical scholars tend to think it’s pretty genuine.

Answer 4

You might want to check out a historian at the time of Jesus, a man by the name of Josephus. Check this name out on a search engine. As I recall, Josephus was not a religious man, but he did acknowledge the man Jesus as a real person. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

There was a concentrated effort on the part of the Romans to destroy any records concerning Jesus, in particular, any record as to his physical description. In this way, the Pagans hoped to bring people back to Paganism. Kind of backfired.

Answer 6

There are, are you serious? Try a google search to start off with. Seriously though, if you want to know for real. You can e-mail me. I'll give you what I found and others I haven't read yet. Most of what you asked can be answered from what I found over the years. What I don't know, there are some who do.

Answer 7

Most people did not read or write! and also most roman records have been destroyed so It i not surprising that very few records exist cmon its 2000 years ago do you have any records that are more than 10 years old... paper wasnt even invented yet

Answer 8

Well,you know,the most trustworthy account of Alexander the Great was written in the second century AD -hundreds of years after Alexander himself lived.The mentions of Jesus rate extremely well in comparison.

Answer 9

Yeshua (Jesus Christ) was considered by many, to be a threat to their customs and culture. The records that we have are from those who were actually witnesses of all that Yeshua said and did.

With all the persecution that was taking place, do you really think that a great number of people would even mention His name; knowing that they could be killed for doing so?

Answer 10

If you read Genesis 14, there is mention of Melchizedek, king of salem who blessed Abraham. Then in Hebrews 6 it mentions that Christ was made a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.