The “best” is dating events in Holy-Roman era books. Aside from the variable of several years, then there’s also that some sects date from “birth” others “baptism” or “death”.
Further, each time the book got hand copied, you’ve no idea whether that monk copied verbatim dates OR believed (possibly wrongly) that the prior copy was dating heretically, and took the liberty of “correcting” it.
So several iterations along, book could be stating a century off…
And its pretty much impossible to pin all the stories in the various gospels to any single individual reliably. And the younger he gets, the more nebulous and fuzzy the stories are.
Historians also have a rule for any historical figure that we are unsure if they really existed, if that person also has lots of stories about him involving magic or him personally doing anything supernatural, ya that guy is probably a myth.
Also doesn’t help that the Roman province of Palestine was utterly saturated in Hellenic culture around the time that Jesus existed. I would not be surprised if certain Hellenic mystery cults like the Hermetics merged with Jewish traditions to create a lot of Jesus like individuals.
The “best” is dating events in Holy-Roman era books. Aside from the variable of several years, then there’s also that some sects date from “birth” others “baptism” or “death”.
Further, each time the book got hand copied, you’ve no idea whether that monk copied verbatim dates OR believed (possibly wrongly) that the prior copy was dating heretically, and took the liberty of “correcting” it.
So several iterations along, book could be stating a century off…
Everything about the Holy Roman Empire was a clusterfuck
And its pretty much impossible to pin all the stories in the various gospels to any single individual reliably. And the younger he gets, the more nebulous and fuzzy the stories are.
Historians also have a rule for any historical figure that we are unsure if they really existed, if that person also has lots of stories about him involving magic or him personally doing anything supernatural, ya that guy is probably a myth.
Also doesn’t help that the Roman province of Palestine was utterly saturated in Hellenic culture around the time that Jesus existed. I would not be surprised if certain Hellenic mystery cults like the Hermetics merged with Jewish traditions to create a lot of Jesus like individuals.