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In the entire first Christian Century, Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman Historian, Religion Scholar, Politician, Philosopher, or Poet. His name never occurs, in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence, zero, zip references! The first time Jesus is mentioned in a Roman Source or a Greek Source, is by a Roman Governor, of a Province of Asia Minor, Governor Pliney in the year 112, eighty years after the death of Jesus…
— Bart Ehrman, professor of religious studies at UNC Chapel Hill
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