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There is an english wikipedia article that makes that claim but that page cites commentary from religious people. As for contemporary influence, well, even the
by gumby 4y ago
There is an english wikipedia article that makes that claim but that page cites commentary from religious people. As for contemporary influence, well, even the gospels point out that the people chose Barabas.
Certainly an influential figure whether such a person actually existed or not.
- freeone3000 4y agoTacticus is religious, sure, but for the Roman state religion. He is primarily a military and political writer; his contemporaneous account of Jesus’ followers is in the context of the First Jewish-Roman War.
- gumby 4y agoHe's a secondary source since he was born a couple of decades after pilate left office and after tiberius was dead. Going back to the original point of this thread (and of the posted article): the efficacy of the biography is orthogonal to whether the subject existed or not.