As an add on question, Josephus' "Testimonium Flavianum" is often cited as the only "non-christian" source that mentions Jesus directly. How solid is the historical consensus on the validity of this claim?
I may have missed this somewhere, but what evidence is there of document Q? Couldn’t Matthew or Luke have copied the other?
Just a question for Historians (Both religious and world etc.) as a side question to the original post.
Is it possible Jesus would , or would not be mentioned as Iesus or Iesos in ancient nonreligious writing, even maybe being mentioned as Joshua/Yeshua?
I've reviewed this question several of the times it has come up on AskHistorians and read the FAQ as this is quite interesting to me. From the perspective of a historian would there be as much/more/less evidence of a similar vein for the existence of the some of the mythological figures, such as Hercules, as compared to the evidence for Jesus?
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