Reply #23: I think you are incorrect

[InvisibleBallots]

"contrasting with the jesus myths, most historical happenings are written about by *lots* of people."

I'd love to see evidence of this. Again, the vast majority of our knowledge of "ancient" Greece and Rome are from a handful of texts - I mean less than 50. These texts are NOT in any way shape nor form "consistent" with each other.

"it would take a pretty damned large conspiracy to account for all the accounts of julius ceasar, and by comparing them against each other we can get some kind of idea about the real story behind the distortions and embellishments. one shmuck's copycatted account of a first century david koresh, "backed up" by what seems likely to be a pious editing job in one of josephus' writings, doesn't require much of a conspiracy at all, on the other hand."

You are simply wrong, about Josephus and the accounts of Julius Caesar. Let me ask a question - what are our major historical text regarding Caesar? Do you know? When were they "discovered"?