Expert: Brenda Martin - 9/22/2006

Question


I know you listed the few Roman historians who did recognize Jesus but what do you have to say about the other historians who didnt...Ive asked this already but I didnt feel like you focused on this part of the email....do you have any theories?  

Maybe They just didnt want to report anything because he was the enemy?

But wasnt Jesus considered more or less an enemy to the priests and Jewish lawmakers and not the Romans?

Answer
"WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE OTHER HISTORIANS WHO DIDNT...DO YOU HAVE ANY THEORIES?"

My theory; Jesus was hated by the majority; the Jews as a nation don’t want to believe he was the son of God for obvious reasons, they put him to death. As for the Romans, well to admit who he was, is to say they had a part in killing the son of God. Jesus was a person they would rather forget even existed.
 
JESUS; NOT AN ENEMY TO THE ROMANS?

Not so sure about that as, the Jews wanted Jesus to remove the “oppressive yoke of the Romans” from off their shoulders.

Then we have the way he was executed as proof of their hatred. Nailed to a stake in the way that the pagan Romans impaled condemned slaves, hanging there in between two notorious evildoers! That situation branded him as a hated man, hated both by the Romans and by the Jews who had handed him over to the Romans to be executed in the most disgraceful manner.

“As a literary historian I am perfectly convinced that whatever the Gospels are, they are not legends. They are not artistic enough to be legends. Most of the life of Jesus is unknown to us, and no people building up a legend would allow that to be so.’—C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock.

Brenda