Reply #116: Don't forget almost everyone died in AD70 so.... [View All]

[TRYPHO]

when you write...

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I think it would be an unnecessary risk, if you're making up the entire story, to say there was a public execution, at the time of the major holiday, for which there would be many people still alive who could say "Rubbish! I lived in Jerusalem then, and nothing like that happened". You can get away with details that happened in private, that weren't given exact dates, because you can say to any naysayer "well, you just weren't there". But invent a crowd scene in the major city, at the most important time of the year, and there'll be a lot of people who could say it never happened. They could have avoided that making up a different story, not so public.
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You are forgetting the million* or so lives lost, the total destruction of Jerusalem, the kicking out of any Jews from the remains and the dispersal and upheavel probably sent most people towards the East or South rather than Europe where the Jesus Gospels were being spread.

So, if you wanted to up the ante a bit on the Jesus fables, there was a much better than normal chance of getting away with it than your argument presumes.

TRYPHO
* - I'm fairly sure thats the fidure I've read in a book somewhere - it was certainly the lives lost in one of the Jewish uprisings against Rome, but there were quite a few!