> most documented person ever > thinks this means each time the new testament is reprinted it's "one documented" jesus is the least documented person in history to still be regarded as a real historical person. there are no contemporary sources that document jesus as a person outside his followers and their claims about him. the earliest non-christian sources that mention jesus date from several decades after his purported lifetime: > thallus, mentioned by julius africanus around 221 ad, allegedly wrote about jesus around 52 ad, but his original writings no longer exist. > josephus, a jewish historian, wrote about jesus around 93 ad, approximately 60 years after jesus' reported death. > tacitus, a roman historian, mentioned jesus in his writings from the early 2nd century. > the babylonian talmud, a collection of jewish rabbinical writings, contains references to jesus, but these were compiled after the 1st century. while these sources provide some non-christian documentation of jesus' existence, they are not contemporary accounts and largely rely on information from christian sources or traditions that had developed by their time of writing. there is no independent non-christian evidence or documentation about jesus during his lifetime by non-followers.
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