Is there any evidence you (AR282) will accept that there were any Jews in Palestine in the period when Jesus is generally alleged to have lived? Ossuaries maybe? (Since you don't accept literary evidence and seem to believe that there were no Christians prior to Eusebius, let alone any with Hebrew-sounding names.) I am trying to figure out how you or anybody else could seriously claim that there is no evidence that there was ever anybody named Jesus or Joshua or Isaiah at the time in question. The evidence that there were such people (though Isaiah may not have been a very common name) and that at least Jesus/Joshua was, like John and Joseph and Simon, a very very common name at the time seems to me incontrovertible. Yet you baldly assert the absurdity that there is no evidence of this.

When did history begin in your view (I get the impression you're into a much younger earth than the Bishop Ussher-style creationists)?

When asked to explain themselves, they say we can't know anything about anybody back then--not realizing that destroys any reason for them to believe.

Ah, no wonder you don't believe.

Haruo