Evidence from History

Three types of historical evidence presented themselves: Jewish, Pagan and Christian.

The Jewish evidence is to be found in the Talmud and Josephus who wrote about 37 A.D. and has been claimed as authentic by Klausner.

References to Christ in Pagan writers are numerous but can be found in Pliny's Epistles, Tacitus, Suetonius. These writers seem quite certain that Christ lived, was crucified, founded a religious movement and was regarded by his followers as divine.

Christian writers are numerous in the first two centuries A.D. and are fully sot out in the Kinsopp-Lake Edition of the Apostolic Fathers.