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Originally Posted by jeffporfirio
Pliny - b 23 ad
Josephus b 37 ad
Tacitus b 56 ad
Not eons from the time of Jesus
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Were they babies when they wrote their accounts?
That is weak evidence to hold your hat on.
Textcritic has made a very strong circumstantial case here before for a historical Jesus, not relying so much on the accounts of these historians. If I understand it correctly, we can't say with absolute certainty that there was a historical Jesus, but the probability is likely (somewhere between a balance of probabilities and beyond a reasonable doubt).
Unless we are Bible literalists, it should not matter to us either way. It is the message that is important, not the symbol.