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In reply to the discussion: Ancient 'Jesus midwife' tomb to be excavated by archaeologists Associated Press [View all]Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)21. No problem
I doubt it, you doubt it much less than me, all good
And hell it's 2000 years ago. Very hard to be truly certain of a lot of things back then. Nor does it really much matter in the grand scheme of things.
Lastly I'll leave it at this: There may be a 'weight of evidence' as you suggest, but when you go looking for even one single, actual, conclusive piece ... none actually exists. Because NOBODY noted his existence during his lifetime (that's been found/documented) despite us having the works (or at least later documentation of) of 126 known historians from that era.
This suggests that if he indeed existed, he was basically a nobody during his lifetime.
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Ancient 'Jesus midwife' tomb to be excavated by archaeologists Associated Press [View all]
magicarpet
Dec 2022
OP
It was a first birth, husband could have been rattled and rushed to seek help.
Irish_Dem
Dec 2022
#2
The story of a midwife is in an apocryphal gospel. And IIRC, the midwife's name isn't Salome;
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2022
#3
There's literally no reliable evidence that the Bible's Jesus of Nazareth was anything but
Hugh_Lebowski
Dec 2022
#4
Pretty sure that if one cannot prove there was a Jesus, it logically follows one also
Hugh_Lebowski
Dec 2022
#14
And yet, the Epistles of St Paul, the 'earliest' time he's mentioned anywhere
Hugh_Lebowski
Dec 2022
#16
A trenchant analysis, hell it even sounds like something I'd write nearly verbatim, thanks! (nt)
Hugh_Lebowski
Dec 2022
#24
The most important question when considering whether or not some man-god got sent down
Goodheart
Dec 2022
#34