1egg4u comments on Was Jesus a magician?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

The clouding of historical vs mythological is interesting. I wonder if theres a bio of Jesus purely based off actual evidence and records that can be substantiated.

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[–] 1egg4u@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I actually stupidly chose Jesus as a historical figure to write a proper primary sources only paper thinking there would be a breadth of info on the guy... and found out the hard way that from a historically factual standpoint all we've got is he probably existed, was baptized, and was executed. Straight up all weve got is what roman records gave us and ~~one painting~~ that might not even be right I think it was like a few depictions and some stories that corroborated

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

Painting?

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[–] 1egg4u@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 months ago

I might have fucked that one up, all I can remember with certainty was there were enough sources that could be cross referenced to include the baptism of a man named jesus by john the baptist and there being mention of like a visual depiction that could be taken as a reliable second source but this was a first year history of religion paper I struggled a lot with so Id take it all with a big grain of salt

All I really remember for sure was historians can (sorta) agree he was baptised by probably john the baptist