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Re:What Archaeology Is Telling Us About the Real Jesus by JKCalhoun on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:49PM (#35486785)
> There almost certainly was a man from Nazareth named Jesus (we have pretty good unbiased sources there).

Josephus is the only one I've heard put forth (and I am aware that many believe the one mention of Jesus by Josephus was a more recent edit).

It wasn't clear to me that it was an open and shut case that there was a man from Nazareth named Jesus.

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Re:What Archaeology Is Telling Us About the Real Jesus by RC_ITR on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:56PM (#35486894)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_(Tacitus)

Tacitus talks abut Jesus in The Annals, and if we don't take that collection at face value, a lot of our understanding of Rome becomes shaky.

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Re:What Archaeology Is Telling Us About the Real Jesus by JKCalhoun on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:03PM (#35486970)
I had not heard of that one.

Personally, while atheist, I believe there likely was a Jesus of Nazareth. I just reason that if they were going to invent someone out of whole cloth they would have made up someone more interesting than a carpenter from Nazareth. It's kind of the coolest part of Jesus to me, how ordinary and humble his beginnings are.

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