>but he has a long list of contemporary sources that describe the same event with blatant contradictions in them. And yet we don't conclude from this that we c

>but he has a long list of contemporary sources that describe the same event with blatant contradictions in them. And yet we don't conclude from this that we can't know anything about the present. Ehrman actually defends normal historical methods against the kind of unwarranted skepticism that you were expressing.