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Quote by: RickSp Two interesting discussions of the lack of evidence for a historical Jesus. The first, Did a historical Jesus exist? discusses the lack of contemporary accounts of Jesus. A second essay, THE MYTH OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS compliments the first by looking at various figures who may be the basis for elements of the Jesus accounts. I find the idea that Nazareth may have been a mistranslation of "Nostri" particularly interesting. The previous link points out that Nazareth in the time when Jesus was said to have been born was not a "city" as represented in the New Testament.Given the Christian propensity for borrowing from other religions, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that the story of Jesus was a folkloric amalgam of various other acounts and tales about the sorcerer Yeishu and the Nostrim as well others in the Messianic tradition who lived within several hundred years of each other.
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one, Nazereth and Nostri were two different languages. that theory came out years ago, and was debunked years ago. that theory was prior to modern archaeology.
two, a city in the New Testament could have been anywhere from a small shantytown that you could walk through without knowing you were there, to a huge metropolis the size of NY, NY. Nazereth isn't given a size. in fact, most biblical scholars believe that Joseph had a hand in building most of the residences in that city. a person with that kind of monopoly in those times would have to live in a small town.
three, I can debunk every theory about borrowed beliefs based on the very culture of the Jewish people. the Jews were known to be a very proud people. they didn't trade throughout their life prior to the splitting of the nation, and very little trading went on after. even then, prophets wrote of prophets who wrote of prophets, creating a web of information so fragile, that if one went astray, the whole web fell apart. it was like a huge machine, lots of moving parts moving around, but pull one, and the whole thing falls apart. such a fine, thin thread, so easy to break, so currently intact. and in the years after Jesus's life, you would have easier gotten results from asking them to castrate their brother than mix their religions.according to history, after the exile, the Israelites, as a nation, were cured of their idolatry, which had included sacrifice of live babies to flames.
four, what does the Talmud say of the dissappearance and reappearance of Nazareth. cities don't just up and walk away. where did it go?