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Remsberg made a list years ago, of early writers who could have mentioned Jesus Christ, yet did not - but the list was bare of details like dates and subjects. It's been frequently repeated and updated, (I even made a poor earlier attempt at it myself,) and recently Michael Paulkovich in his book No Meek Messiah listed 126 such writers - but still poorly classified.
So I have researched Paulkovich's list, and classified the writings, and sorted them by date, with some explanations concerning relevance - to give a much better view of this evidence, and hereby present the results for discussion and debate.
(To the mods : this is a large group of posts, but I am publishing it here for the first time, it's not copied from my web-page, or any web-page. I hope that with contributions from members here we can build a definitive list.)
To readers : please don't post any replies until I have finished my several initial posts OK ? :) I want to get the layout all nice and proper, like :)
Why Would They Mention Jesus ?
Many of these books are relevant or local or contemporary, and many authors did mention people and events from far away (e.g. Pausanias on Palestinian Jew 'Sabbe'), or digress into a different subjects (e.g. Josephus), or mention topics that could clearly connect to Jesus Christ (e.g. Petronius' crucifixion.)
I have rated each work for characteristics which would increase the likelyhood of a mention of Jesus Christ :
Kapyong
Remsberg made a list years ago, of early writers who could have mentioned Jesus Christ, yet did not - but the list was bare of details like dates and subjects. It's been frequently repeated and updated, (I even made a poor earlier attempt at it myself,) and recently Michael Paulkovich in his book No Meek Messiah listed 126 such writers - but still poorly classified.
So I have researched Paulkovich's list, and classified the writings, and sorted them by date, with some explanations concerning relevance - to give a much better view of this evidence, and hereby present the results for discussion and debate.
(To the mods : this is a large group of posts, but I am publishing it here for the first time, it's not copied from my web-page, or any web-page. I hope that with contributions from members here we can build a definitive list.)
To readers : please don't post any replies until I have finished my several initial posts OK ? :) I want to get the layout all nice and proper, like :)
Why Would They Mention Jesus ?
Many of these books are relevant or local or contemporary, and many authors did mention people and events from far away (e.g. Pausanias on Palestinian Jew 'Sabbe'), or digress into a different subjects (e.g. Josephus), or mention topics that could clearly connect to Jesus Christ (e.g. Petronius' crucifixion.)
I have rated each work for characteristics which would increase the likelyhood of a mention of Jesus Christ :
- the Subject is relevant (S or s)
- the book is Contemporary (C or c)
- the work is Local (L or l)
- the book is Big with lots of names etc. (B or b)
- the book is a Christian work (X)
Kapyong
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