• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I don’t know that the History Channel is a good representation of academic consensus. It should basically never be relied upon.

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      4 months ago

      The tl;dr of that article isn’t even “no”. It provides both sides of the accounts and references academics that argue both ways.

      I read it to make the same argument you did, but ended up considering it a surprisingly well written article.

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      4 months ago

      Agree. But that specific article seems pretty alright. Also talks about the relics and history records for example by Tacitus.

      There also is a Wikipedia article which I think is not written that well. And a lot of education material by churches or religious organizations which I did not cite for obvious reasons.

      (And the German Wikipedia article about sources for the historicity of Jesus seems very good. But it’s not exactly OP’s question and I don’t know if it helps: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Außerchristliche_antike_Quellen_zu_Jesus_von_Nazaret )

      • HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 months ago

        There also is a Wikipedia article which I think is not written that well. And a lot of education material by churches or religious organizations which I did not cite for obvious reasons.

        That’s because Christian apologists constantly brigade those articles.

        Edit: lol, and downvote lemmy comments I guess