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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (890996)	10/1/2015 6:45:51 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575181

Josephus didn't write any histories till after Jesus's time. A 60 year gap means Josephus' mention of Jesus, his brother James, and John the Baptist .... that isn't much by the standards of ancient historians. Most ancient histories were written hundreds of years after the times they wrote about. Take Alexander the Great for example, who died in 323 BC: Apart from a few inscriptions and fragments, texts written by people who actually knew Alexander* or who gathered information from men who served with Alexander were all lost.* [14] Contemporaries who wrote accounts of his life included Alexander's campaign historian Callisthenes; Alexander's generals Ptolemy and Nearchus; Aristobulus, a junior officer on the campaigns; and Onesicritus, Alexander's chief helmsman. Their works are lost, but later works based on these original sources have survived. The earliest of these is *Diodorus Siculus* (1st century BC), followed by Quintus Curtius Rufus (mid-to-late 1st century AD), Arrian (1st to 2nd century AD), the biographer Plutarch (1st to 2nd century AD), and finally Justin, whose work dated as late as the 4th century. [14] Of these, Arrian is generally considered the most reliable, given that he used Ptolemy and Aristobulus as his sources, closely followed by Diodorus. [14] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great