Did Jesus Exist? (Introduction to Christian Apologetics - 6)
Channel: The Nerdy Apologist
Date: 2020-06-04

In which I give the historical arguments for Jesus’s existence.

FURTHER READING:

The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel:
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Christ-Journalists-Personal-Investigation/dp/0310339308

Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church by Steve Weidenkopf:
https://www.amazon.com/Timeless-History-Catholic-Steve-Weidenkopf/dp/1681921480

The Real Story of Catholic History: Answering Twenty Centuries of Anti-Catholic Myths by Steve Weidenkopf:
https://www.amazon.com/Real-Story-Catholic-History-Anti-Catholic/dp/1683570472

Josephus:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2848/2848-h/2848-h.htm#link202HCH0009
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2848/2848-h/2848-h.htm#link182HCH0003
https://www.namb.net/apologetics-blog/josephus-and-jesus/
https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/january-february-2010/jesus-in-the-eyes-of-josephus-features-jan-10-geza-vermes/

Tacitus:
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/Annals/15C*.html
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/Annals/15B*.html
http://www.tektonics.org/jesusexist/tacitus.php#tacrel

Suetonius:
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Claudius*.html
http://www.tektonics.org/jesusexist/suey.php

Pliny:
https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/study/module/pliny
http://www.tektonics.org/jesusexist/pliny.php

St. Ignatius of Antioch:
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0106.htm
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07644a.htm

St. Justin Martyr:
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0126.htm
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08580c.htm

St. Paul:
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11567b.htm

All Bible quotations are taken from the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. You can read the Bible passages for yourself at https://www.biblegateway.com/