He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. “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. Here is that passage coming from Antiquities 18:3:3: Historians think it has been altered by Christians several centuries later who wanted to portray Jesus in a better light. In the book, Jesus comes up twice – once in a curious passage about Jesus’s supposed brother James and in another paragraph that has since been questioned in its authenticity. He referred to Christ in his history of Judaism “ Jewish Antiquities” from AD 93. The first non-Christian writer to talk about Jesus was the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (born Yosef ben Matityahu),who lived around AD 47-100.
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They also contained practical instructions for the growing number of Christians on how to live according to their faith. The letters of the apostle Paul from about AD 50-60 are the earliest texts mentioning Jesus and the doctrines of Christianity.
Simon Gathercole, a New Testament scholar from the University of Cambridge, in the Guardian. Despite limitations, a few decades following Jesus’s supposed lifetime, mentions of him started to crop up in the writings of Jewish and Roman historians, as well as in dozens of texts by Christians, writes Dr. Without the ability to print books, not to mention having no phones or the Internet, it took a while for information to be dispersed.
The supposed time frame of Jesus’s life, starting at year zero, was not a period big on communication.