Jewish History : Early Christianity

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Last night I watched a great video about Jewish History during the period of early Christianity... The Rabbi said that 'Jesus' did not appear in any Jewish historical record...



http://www.messiahtruth.com/response.html

What is remarkable about Q1 is that the original Christians appeared to be centered totally on concerns about their relationships with G-d and with other people, and their preparation for the Kingdom of G-d on earth. Totally absent from their spiritual life are almost all of the factors that we associate with Christianity today. There is absolutely no mention of (in alphabetic order):

    * adultery
    * angels
    * apostles
    * baptism
    * church
    * clergy
    * confirmation
    * crucifixion
    * demons
    * disciples
    * divorce
    * Eucharist
    * healing
    * great commission to convert the world
    * heaven
    * hell
    * incarnation
    * infancy stories
    * John the Baptist
    * Last Supper
    * life after death
    * Mary and Joseph and the rest of Jesus' family
    * magi
    * miracles
    * Jewish laws concerning behavior
    * marriage
    * Messiah
    * restrictions on sexual behavior
    * resurrection
    * roles of men and women
    * Sabbath
    * salvation
    * Satan
    * second coming
    * signs of the end of the age
    * sin
    * speaking in tongues
    * temple
    * tomb
    * transfiguration
    * trial of Jesus
    * trinity
    * virgin birth

There is no reference to Jesus' death having any redeeming function; in fact, there is no mention of the crucifixion at all. John E. Remsburg's The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidence of His Existence, lists the following writers who lived during the time, or within a century after the time, that Jesus is supposed to have lived:

    * Josephus
    * Philo-Judææus
    * Seneca
    * Pliny Elder
    * Arrian
    * Petronius
    * Dion Pruseus
    * Paterculus
    * Suetonius
    * Juvenal
    * Martial
    * Persius
    * Plutarch
    * Pliny Younger
    * Tacitus
    * Justus of Tiberius
    * Apollonius
    * Quintilian
    * Lucanus
    * Epictetus
    * Hermogones Silius Italicus
    * Statius
    * Ptolemy
    * Appian
    * Phlegon
    * Phæædrus
    * Valerius Maximus
    * Lucian
    * Pausanias
    * Florus Lucius
    * Quintius Curtius
    * Aulus Gellius
    * Dio Chrysostom
    * Columella
    * Valerius Flaccus
    * Damis
    * Favorinus
    * Lysias
    * Pomponius Mela
    * Appion of Alexandria
    * Theon of Smyrna

Enough of the writings of the authors named in the foregoing list remains to form a library. Yet in this mass of Jewish and Pagan literature, according to Remsburg, "aside from two forged passages in the works of a Jewish author, and two disputed passages in the works of Roman writers, there is to be found no mention of Jesus Christ." Nor, do any of these authors make note of the Disciples or Apostles -- increasing the embarrassment from the silence of history concerning the foundation of Christianity.