How come that no Historian contemporaneous to Jesus recorded his existence?

Question

That's rather strange isn't it ?

Josefius Flavius mentioned "the annointed" in a small sentence and it is not related to Jesus.

Answer 1

It isn't strange at all.
Look up any other ancient historical figure and look at how many contemporary historians mentioned them, and compare the number of years from their death until the first historical mention. To scholars, Jesus is an anomaly - not because nobody mentions him, but because so many people mentioned him so soon after his death. There is a reason that no serious, peer-reviewed scholars question the existence of Jesus.

Answer 2

It would be strange if it were true. Jesus was referenced by several historians around his time: Cornelius Tacitus, Flavius Josephus, Thallus, Suetonius Tranquillas, to name a few. There are also historians from the time that referenced official records from Pontius Pilate describing the crucifixion. Not to mention the New Testament, which is generally recognized as historically accurate and includes books written shortly after the death of Jesus.

It's also worth noting that until recently, only the divinity of Jesus was in question - not his actual existence.

Answer 3

Yeah, by way of fact all of us understand that each and each single 1st century individual seen to have been important, besides as each and each important experience, become recorded actual away. like the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which become written a pair of mere 2 many years after the fact, as an occasion. 2 of the places wherein records could have been saved (Rome and Jerusalem) the two burned to the floor interior the 1st century. Jesus' existence become assumed. it is basically interior the final 200 years or so as that there is even been a query. Even the individuals who have been maximum severe of Christianity for the time of its infancy by no skill tried saying that Jesus did no longer exist. Why is that? Edit: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius become a "volcano farting"? actual, and the tsunami that hit Thailand in 2004 become basically a reasonably bigger than typical wave, and the earthquake in Haiti final year become basically a average tremble. You do comprehend that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius took out 2 fairly super cities, killed hundreds of people, and affected the climate around the realm for months, actual? A "volcano farting" certainly. If the eruption of Mount Vesuvius become a brilliant deal, why did it take somebody 25 years in the previous writing down an account of it? Why wasn't it recorded by way of somebody else in the previous that? if fact learn, it could have been. and probably something become written approximately Jesus, too, and the writings have been lost. We does not understand, might we?

Answer 4

Josephus did write specifically about Jesus...by name. Read some more of him.

The following passage appears in the Greek version of Antiquities of the Jews xviii 3.3, in the translation of William Whiston:

3.3 Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.

You should amend or withdraw this question as worded. Looks a bit foolish.

Answer 5

Actually Josephus and Tacitus were in the same time period as the historical Jesus.

One of them was a Jewish historian and the other a Roman one. There are also records of other figures mentioned in the Gospel accounts found in Roman records, such as Caiaphas and Pontius Pilate.

Answer 6

No, not strange at all. There is a simple explanation for it. He never existed. Someone else already shot down the Josephus forged statement, so I will not bother with that either.

Answer 7

there is..
Many well read atheists know the man Jesus was here and had a following called Christians.

We have works from Pliny the Younger, Tacitus and Josephus.

Answer 8

Josephus Flavius did.

Answer 9

Josephus never mentioned him because there was no such person whatever was mentioned in Josephus was added later and if you read i closely you will see that when it mentions him it is out of context

Answer 10

I guess they weren't very impressed.

And the guy above me doesn't know that Josephus was about 90 years later. Either that or he doesn't understand "contemporaneous."