Historical and Scientific Proof of Jesus

It is interesting that when people seek historic and scientific proof of Jesus, they immediately discount the Bible as a reliable source.If we look at the Bible simply as a historic document, it should be among the most reliable on record compared with others.Historians routinely cite Herodotus as a key source of information. He wrote from 488 B.C. to 428 B.C. and the earliest copy of his work comes from 900 A.D. (1,300 years later). There are only eight known copies of his work.By contrast, the New Testament of the Bible (with all its information about Jesus) was written between 40 A.D. and 100 A.D. The earliest known copy is from 130 A.D. and there are 5,000 known copies in Greek, 10,000 in Latin and 9,300 in other languages.Still, to put to rest the notion that there is no historic and scientific proof of Jesus outside the Bible, we may look to Jewish historian Flavius Josephus and to Roman historian Carius Cornelius Tacitus - both well known and accepted.Josephus, in the book Jewish Antiquities" wrote:Tacitus, in writing about accusations that Nero burned the city of Rome and blamed it on Christians, said the following: