Of the many well known scholars and historians of the Roman Empire during the time of Jesus, none ever wrote?

Question

or recorded anything about his alleged Resurrection or the alleged Ascension? Only a handful of promoters of Christianity have written about it...... decades later. Would this not have been, at the very least, the event of the week?

Answer 1

In Matthew it said that, just after Jesus died, hundreds of dead bodies rose up from the grave and shambled around downtown Jerusalem talking to people. Not 28 Days Later, ONE HOUR later! You'd think this would make the news, that a literate Roman or Arab or other non-Jew would write about the amazing events of the spring of 33 A.D. People would be terrified at this LIVING DEAD stuff and maybe property values would plummet. Or maybe a slight mention from the Roman governor, "We have a slight unemployment problem because hundreds of dead bodies are asking for their old jobs back and forming a union..."

But nothing!

Answer 2

A handful of promoters? More than 40 authors wrote the bible over a 1,600-year span. Moses wrote the first book in 1500BC and John composed the last one, Revelations, toward the end of the first century.The Book which predicted the rise and fall of empires, the destruction of cities, the birth, life, death, resurrection and second coming of the messiah. The Book which contains 31,175 promises that you can proclaim, what more evidence do you want?
Truly this was the son of God...
Matthew 27:62-
The next day that followed the day of preparation(the sabbath)the chief priest and Pharisees came to Pilate. We remember the deceiver said, that after 3 days he would rise again. Command the sepulchre(tomb) be made sure until the third day.Lest his disciples come by night and steal his body and say to the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error would be worse than the first. So they sealed the stone and set a watch. At the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week(sunday)...Jesus resurrected. Some of the watchmen came into the city and told the chief priest what they had seen. But the elders gave the soldiers large sums of money, so they would claim"the disciples came at night and stole the body while we slept"
Matthew 28:15"...And this saying is commonly reported among the jews until this day"
It would have never been reported. They were incredulous and never accepted that Jesus was the Messiah. Documenting these events would have meant accepting Jesus and accepting the fact that they killed the "author of life"

Answer 3

The answers to this question so far indicate how uneducated many christians are about their own religion. a follow up question to this is "why do people repeat things they heard without checking of they are true?" Josephus did not write a damn thing right after Jesus died. His writings came decades after the death of Jesus.

There are not many writings from contemporary sources of the day because, prior to the Roman adaptation of christianity, it was a tiny cult that few took seriously. Jesus was not regarded as that important until the might of the Roman empire dictated so. The Romans would not have written much about Jesus anymore than any of the other would be messiahs they killed in various conquered lands.

Answer 4

When the time of the Roman Empire, scholars and historians during the time of Jesus none ever wrote because they are being forced or being dictated by the Roman official to wrote what they want or what is favorable to them. If you are a scholar and an historian, would you write an history that filled with lies and fabricated story? I know you would not. Look at the Bible, the Christians, at first Roman hates the Christians but then they become the Roman catholic, there is a saying: if you can;t beat them, join them. So when they join the Christians they manipulate the true history of the Christians.

Answer 5

Primoa's answer, as usual, misses the point of the question. For that matter why did they not record the Massacre of the Innocents or the miracles that supposedly happen. To the romans, history was an art form and they were meticulous in recording it.

Lets talk about Josephus: one line in the Jewish War where he mentions "followers of Jesus, said to be the Christ", written after the destruction of the Temple in 78 AD hardly qualifies as a historical account of Jesus.

But to get back to Primoa , this is from the guy who said Yoga was "satanic" so what do you expect?

Answer 6

I can imagine that this Jesus guy really wasn't that big of a name back then. It's actually Paul, Constantine, and the Inquisition that have made Jesus such a big deal. At the time, however, he was just another quack evangelist leading a little band of hippie followers. It's not like he was the only one.

Answer 7

That will open a whole different debate.
It was the event of the week to his followers. But yes I often wonder that if Jesus was no longer in his tomb, that there would have been some charges brought up on the Roman guards. I'm not sure. I'm sure records were lost or what not.

Answer 8

Maybe its because Jesus was not of any importance to the Roman Empire, you fool. Kinda like Jesus is not of any importance to you.

You must remember (1) Jesus was poor. (2) Jesus was primarily important to the Sanhedrin, because they believed he was blasphemous, claiming to be the Son of God. (3) In the eyes of the Romans, Jesus had done nothing wrong. Even Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, and Jesus’ executioner, found no fault with him. He was executed at the persistence of the Sanhedrin.

Answer 9

Well, as the some of the most well-known historians of the time were the writers of the Bible (sorry, but it's true - the Bible is the best-selling history book of all time), I'd say someone DID write about Jesus.

I love it when people apply the context of 21st century America with our instant global news to the ancient world. Oh yes, didn't you know that Jesus was on the nightly news in Rome? It was big news all over the internet...

Answer 10

So what. Are you saying it didn't happen because you don't have evidence from a Roman that it did? Good Grief. Jesus (to the Romans anyway) was nothing. why would they write about it. He wasn't political and all he was to them was a rebel in one of their provinces. He wasn't even ticking off the Romans but his own folks...the Jews...They could have cared less. That doesn't mean it didn't happen it just means no Roman wrote about it....