Copie traduite en anglais de 1-11° L’être de Jésus 1 Do we have historical evidence of the existence of Jesus?
So before dealing with this subject, I want to recall the two approaches that we can have of Jesus.
First approach, according to a historical method and in this case, it is a precise method that relies on two bases, namely testimonies, and mainly testimonies of enemies, because if they are testimonies of friends, it is less credible for the historian, and on the other hand, archaeological traces.
And then, there is an approach of Jesus by faith, by theology, for example: The one who believes, but she can not prove it but she trusts in God that this Jesus is God made man. And that does not concern the story at all, of course.
These two separate approaches, therefore in spite of everything, come together, no doubt, in one point. The famous Shroud of Turin.
For the moment he resists science. In the eighties, ninety, it seems that some had dated from the Middle Ages. And then it was questioned.
Other sources, measuring this shroud, show that there is a problem and that we do not always understand, how was formed this image which is a slight burn on the surface. So maybe here an archaeological record would join the phenomenon of the resurrection, but obviously it's so huge that history is asking for more, as well as science, and evidence, and evidence and checks, which is fine normal, which is his duty.
As for the evidence of the existence of Jesus, first of all, it is archaeological evidence, it is not directly from Jesus. It is said that there are pieces of the cross, and nails. But these are not true proofs. It can be inventions.
On the other hand, in excavations of Old Israel, very old places, for example in Capernaum, a house, where there is a graffiti marked "Here is Peter" in Latin and around, a Byzantine basilica far from the ruins . This is a trace that very early in history, this house was recognized as the one where lived Peter, the first pope.
We have the same kind of find in Ephesus. We found a small house by the sea, ruins in any case, which were under the ground, surrounded by a basilica and perhaps it is the house of the Virgin, as the old tradition said.
Other proofs are testimonies. So we obviously have the Gospels, but in terms of the historical method, let's say that they are interesting. But it would take external testimonies, because are all the friends of Jesus who wrote.
And so historians will say, they loved it so much, they had to grow, the story of the resurrection, for the historian, what can prove it. Nothing, his method does not achieve that.
And so, we searched for and found a series of very old texts, almost contemporaries of Jesus but often all the same, in the second century, at the beginning of the second century, which show that the ancients, contemporaries of Jesus, did not have never doubted its existence.
On the other hand, they questioned his divinity, the faith that the Christians put in it, and so on. So some examples: First among the Romans, well a Syriac text that is in the British Museum which is dated about seventy-three AD, so very shortly after the death of Jesus and a passage, obviously an excerpt that says, "What advantage did the Jews have in executing their wise king? Their kingdom was destroyed soon after.
"Suetonius,another Roman author wrote to one hundred to twenty-two:" As the Jews were constantly disturb the city, at the instigation of a certain Christus, Claudius, the Emperor decided to expel them from Rome. It is in the life of Claude, in chapter XXV to verse 11. "
And he adds, in the life of Nero, in chapter XVI:" The emperor delivered to the torture the Christians, a race addicted to a new and guilty superstition.
"Thesetexts then prove in any case the existence of Christians at the time of Emperor Nero so in the sixties after Christ.
Tacitus wrote about one hundred and sixteen AD: "The Christian name comes to them from the name of Christ who was condemned under Tiberius, by the procurator Pontius Pilate. It is in the annals, chapter XV, verse 44.
We can also mention Pliny the Younger, who writes to a hundred and twelve, a letter to the Emperor, concerning the orders to persecute this sect which is called the Christians. He says: "There were people who said they were Christians but who did not hesitate to sacrifice, according to the orders I gave, to save their lives. Anything that is impossible to obtain from those who are truly Christian. I thought they had to be released. Those who called themselves Christians affirmed that all their fault or error was limited to the custom of meeting on fixed days, before sunrise, to sing between them alternately a hymn to Christ, as to a god. Panegyric letter of Trajan.
And we can continue and there are several texts like this and all simply say that Christians believed in Christ without ever denying
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