/lit/ - Literature

>>4982837
>again, none of these people wrote accounts about jesus while he was alive -- you cannot trust a secondary source reliably
Before about 1200AD we have basically nothing but secondary sources. We have no primary sources for the likes of Alexander the Great or Hannibal Barca, but nobody seems to question their existence.

And besides, why would they lie? Tacitus hated Christians but he also hated hearsay, he would never have written something unless he was sure it was true. Josephus met Jesus' brother, and refers to him as Jesus' brother; imaginary people don't have real brothers.