But these are not early refrences, but drawing on sources 100yrs later, far too scanty to be of any value. Josephus the earliest by far is already shown to be faked. Agrippa I is called "chrestos" by Josephus as early as 41ce after his appointment by his friend Claudius, that there may have existed some small variety of emrging Christian / Jewish messianic cults by this time, proves little of any individual from Nazareth.
"No sculptures, no drawings, no markings in stone, nothing written in his own hand; and no letters, no commentaries, no authentic documents written by his Jewish and Gentile contemporaries, Justice of Tiberius, Philo, Josephus, Seneca, Petronius Arbiter, Pliny the Elder, et al., to lend credence to his historicity"
Regarding these "references," if they were genuine they would no more prove the existence of Jesus "Christ" than do writings about other "Christs and prove their existence. That there could & would be some messianic cults of the conquered arise after the virtual destruction of Jerusalem & temple? Yes, that could be easy to predict.
Was there an emergent cultural phenomenon with that destruction & diaspora? Absolutely, but all supernatural references later are absolutely drawn from many other mythical sources, and we still have yet to see one evidenced example of anything "supernatural" in the last 3000yrs.
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