It sounds like a botched job, sorry you had to suffer through it. I hope the telly survived having the obligatory shoe thrown at it. :-)
When I was at University, I took a class which delved into question of whether non-Biblical sources existed which had something to say about Jesus, and there were three as I recall. One was a line item in a report from Pilate to Rome, one was from Herod's court records, and the third was from Josephus or someone like him which I remember striking me as second or third hand. There were also various Greek documents about St. Paul, but of course they didn't contain any first hand info on Jesus.
The conclusion of the professor was that Jesus existed, but there's not much else we can say about him. The professor didn't trust the gospels, since they were written decades after the crucifixion, by four men with their own agendas. He was especially down on John, who apparently wrote his 60 years later while living in Rome. I may be mis-remembering that bit, it was 40 years ago and I was never good at taking notes.
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Date: 2008-09-03 08:30 am (UTC)When I was at University, I took a class which delved into question of whether non-Biblical sources existed which had something to say about Jesus, and there were three as I recall. One was a line item in a report from Pilate to Rome, one was from Herod's court records, and the third was from Josephus or someone like him which I remember striking me as second or third hand. There were also various Greek documents about St. Paul, but of course they didn't contain any first hand info on Jesus.
The conclusion of the professor was that Jesus existed, but there's not much else we can say about him. The professor didn't trust the gospels, since they were written decades after the crucifixion, by four men with their own agendas. He was especially down on John, who apparently wrote his 60 years later while living in Rome. I may be mis-remembering that bit, it was 40 years ago and I was never good at taking notes.