Can somebody please post links to non biblical accounts of Jesus' life that were written by his contemporaries

Question

..........ie PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY LIVED AT THE SAME TIME AS JESUS. Josephus and Tacitus are often cited as non biblical accounts of Jesus but the obvious problem is that they wrote well after Jesus' supposed death and those accounts were based on third and fourth hand accounts. There is also considerable doubt among historians about the validity of Josephus' account .

I am looking for sources written at the time of Jesus by real witnesses to the supposed events. The Romans were famous for keeping meticulous records of events in the empire. Surely if a guy was going around raising people from the dead and turning water into wine, this would be heavily documented ?

As I said I am looking for links to the actual text of these contemporary accounts not just references to supposed accounts.......... of which I've gotten many...... never with links to the actual text itself though.Thanks.

I've asked this before and not one person has been able to provide me with these accounts.

Answer 1

Frankly, you probably won't find any.

Nor should you, necessarily.

Answer 2

Obviously there would be few, because only the converts to Christianity would think that an obscure carpenter from a remote Romans outpost who was killed for treason was important enough to write about.

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I like this quote:
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During a discussion of William Shakespeare, a student asked the old professor about the en vogue theory that Shakespeare did not write the plays ascribed to him.

The professor growled, "Young man, if Shakespeare did not write those plays,then they were written by someone who lived at the same time and had the same name!"


It is a sure sign of desperation: In disbelieving circles, one of the most popular ideas to come to the fore recently is the "Jesus-myth" - the idea that Jesus did not even exist, much less conduct a ministry as described in the New Testament. It is an idea that one would suppose would be relegated to the pages of the Weekly World News - and it might even be funny, were it not for the fact that there are so many who take it seriously and are extremely vocal in their seriousness....

Answer 3

There are some that are reported as the "Gnostic Gospels", seek below that. even if, many of the bills of Jesus' existence that existed have been destroyed with the help of the Romans themselves before or around the time of the council of Nicea, those that survived have been very heavily edited to incorporate no actual description of Jesus in any know, as Constantine became easily a Pagan, no longer a christian, and was hoping that devoid of tangible description to consult with that folk could at last return to Gods that they could see. He became lifeless incorrect, for sure. yet we nonetheless have not got any historic checklist to even grant us with a actual description of the guy, to no longer point out what he did maximum of his existence!

Answer 4

Look, when he was alive, he had 12 guys, his mum, and a chick named Mary Magdalen who followed him around. Most others didn't bother to pay attention to him. He was one of a tens - even hundreds - of Messianic cult leaders at the time. The first mention of him comes about 70 years after his death in a letter from Pliny the Younger to the Emporer Trajan, in which he says he "discovered no more than that they were addicted to a bad and to an extravagant superstition."

Answer 5

Don't waste your time, I've never found any reliable sources. Everything they do have is highly disputed or a fake.

Answer 6

Nope. Can't point to something that doesn't exist.

That's the Christian's job.
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Answer 7

None exist...weird huh!

Answer 8

There are none.

Answer 9

There aren't any.