Is Jesus a Copy of Pagan gods? The Historical Odds | Part 3 - a podcast by Two Messianic Jews

from 2021-03-15T16:00

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One of the primary arguments a prominent Jewish counter-missionary gave us for why we should leave Messianic Judaism is that Jesus was a copy of pagan myths and never existed as a historical figure. In this final video of the three-part series, we show why this argument is historically implausible based on what our sources tell us about first-century Jewish views of paganism and the fact that the early Jesus movement was a sect within Judaism.

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Translations:

The Wisdom of Solomon – NRSV

1 Maccabees – NRSV

Tacitus, Histories – https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/Histories/5A*.html

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews – William Whiston (1987)

Dr. Isaac Oliver's dissertation - Torah Praxis after 70 C.E.: Reading Matthew and Luke-Acts as Jewish Texts