The earlest historical claim that Jesus was raise, when???

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The earlest historical claim that Jesus was raise, when???

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QUESTION

In A.D. 64, the Roman historian Tacitus wrote:

“Nero fastened the guilt ... on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of ... Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome...� (“Marcus Pontius Pilatus, (died after 36 ce ), Roman prefect (governor) of Judaea (26–36 ce) under the emperor Tiberius who presided at the trial of Jesus and gave the order for his crucifixion)’’

“Perhaps the most remarkable reference to Jesus outside the Bible can be found in the writings of Josephus, a first century Jewish historian. On two occasions, in his Jewish Antiquities, he mentions Jesus. The second, less revealing, reference describes the condemnation of one "James" by the Jewish Sanhedrin. This James, says Josephus, was "the brother of Jesus the so-called Christ."�The Antiquities of the Jews, Antiquitates Judaicae, an account of Jewish history from its early beginnings to the revolt against Rome in AD 66, written in Greek in about AD 93 by Flavius Josephus


About 20 years after the claimed resurrection of Jesus (c. 54 Ad) Paul wrote his 1 Corinthians to the Galatians who lived about 800miles from Jerusalem claiming that 500 people had seen the risen Jesus. But Paul was not residing in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus death. None of the "500" Hebrews, Romans, or Greeks who allegedly saw this event (not anyone they told) left any writings about the event nor is any such report founding any of the Gospels.


The Gospels were written between 70 and 95 AD. They claim that Jesus was raised from the dead.

QUESTION: What date of any contemporary or near contemporary evidence is there that Jesus was raised from the dead?

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