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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 8098094, member: 120820&quot;]But what exactly do we need evidence of? To say there&#039;s a historical Jesus is just to say that the figure in the bible - the Christian leader who died on the cross - was a real person, not just a totally fictitious character. Tacitus seems to deliver all the confirmation we need, that the leader of the Christians was indeed killed.</p><p><br /></p><p>By understanding the time period we can help fill in the blanks between this minimalist &quot;yes, there was someone&quot; and Biblical fact+myth. As I recall there is some contemporary Christian apologist who ruefully commented on other contemporary wonder workers performing more impressive feats than Jesus; so, while not enough to have historians writing about it, this is at least another link between the myth and the historical figure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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