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Absent from Josephus is his birth, his death and all events from his life.

Absent from Josephus is the massacre of the infants.

Absent from Josephus is the cleansing of the Temple.

Absent form Josephus is an earthquake when Jesus died, and the opening of tombs in Jerusalem.

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I'm asking because I'm getting different opinions from different people. Feel free to comment.According to Josephus,. His book, "Antiquities of the Jews", was published around 94CE.The only problem with this piece of information is that the oldest preserved text is from the eleventh centuryThis is thepiece of information about the "historical" Jesus.The New Testament describes all kinds of events that would have been noted by independent writers, if they had happened.Both the Romans and the Jews knew how to write, yet there are no written documents of the events portrayed in the bible. You'd think there would have been letters if Jesus had disrupted the temple, wouldn't you?I can only conclude that Jesus was not a historical figure (he was not an important public figure) in his time even if he existed.According to the gospel of Mathew, Jesus was born during Herod's reign. Herod died 4BCE. According to the gospel of Luke, Jesus was born during the census of Quirinius 6CE... ten years later.Plague of mice - Did Jesus ever exist? Rosa Rubicondior - The Historical Evidence For Jesus. Daily Mail - Jesus NEVER existed Clare K. Rothschild, "Echo of a Whisper": The Uncertain Authenticity of Josephus' Witness to John the Baptist, in David Hellholm, Tor Vegge, Ayvind Norderval, Christer Hellholm (editors), Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity, page 273 (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2011). ISBN 978-3-11-024751-0*Post updated October 28th, 2017