<div class="gmail_quote">2012/2/6 Kryonica <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kryonica@gmail.com">kryonica@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Yes, except that Joshua of Nazareth was probably more charismatic than the average Mr Jones of his days, and that is why the guys around him who believed in him went berserk when they killed him - especially as it probably happened quite unexpectedly and quite quickly: he went to the Temple on some business, was arrested, tried and died. </div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all">Yes, I am myself tentatively inclined to believe that in this sense he "existed". <br><br><i><b>B</b></i>ut my point was that once you know so little about the actual relationship between a given individual and the stories told a couple of centuries later about him (perhaps even merging memories related to different people to a well-established mythological legacy) the question of whether he existed does not really admit an answer, one way or for that matter another, because you do not even know, contrary to what is applicable to, say, Alexander the Great, who you are talking about.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>