SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoWhen did Jesus become a christian?message-squaremessage-square163fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down113
arrow-up168arrow-down1message-squareWhen did Jesus become a christian?SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square163fedilink
minus-squaredev_null@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days agoDefinitely enough for a whole separate Wikipedia article to list them all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of_Jesus
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoFrom that article: The non-Christian sources that are used to study and establish the historicity of Jesus are Josephus (a Jewish historian and commander in Galilee) and Tacitus (a Roman historian and Senator). So two. Not “many”.
minus-squaredev_null@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoThat’s what the article calls “key sources”. There are many more below (Mara bar Serapion, Suetonius, The Talmud, and more under “minor sources”).
Definitely enough for a whole separate Wikipedia article to list them all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of_Jesus
From that article:
So two. Not “many”.
That’s what the article calls “key sources”. There are many more below (Mara bar Serapion, Suetonius, The Talmud, and more under “minor sources”).