06-29-2020, 09:55 PM
(06-29-2020, 09:04 PM)searchinmyroots Wrote: That's a strange question George.
Judaism doesn't really say anything on the Jesus that is thought of today.
But surely Judaism knows history:
2. Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman historian in (55-117 AD), speaks of the Crucifixion of Jesus and Emperor Nero's persecution of Christians in the year 64 AD
"But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiation of the gods did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order. Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. CHRISTUS, FROM WHOM THE NAME HAD ITS ORIGIN, SUFFERED THE EXTREME PENALTY during the reign of Tiberius AT THE HANDS OF ONE OF ITS PROCURATORS. PONTIUS PILATUS, and a most mischievous superstition thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judea, the first source of the evil, but even Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their center and become popular ..."