Average human lifetime was 38 years. Was not 1 generation. The consensus opinions on dating - The four canonical gospels were probably written between AD 66 and 110.
In a foreign language.
Paul also claimed to get messages from a demigod in Heaven. Not a good source.
Nowhere in the Gospels do they ever name their sources of information, nor do they read as eye witness testimonies (nor do they identify themselves as such), nor is it mentioned why any sources used would be accurate to rely upon. The authors never discuss any historical method used, nor do they acknowledge how some contents may be less accurate than others, nor do they mention alternate possibilities of the events given the limited information they had from their sources. The Greeks were commonly using this fictional biographical technique as a popular rhetorical device where they were taught to invent narratives about famous and legendary people, as well as to build a symbolic or moral message within it, and where they were taught to make changes to traditional stories in order to make whatever point they desired within their own stories.
There is no Roman documentation or archeological artifact to support the Barabbas story but it does obviously emulates the Jewish Yom Kippur ritual about atonement. The point of the story.
Barabbas means ‘Son of the Father’ in Aramaic, coincidence? In the story Barabbas is the militant messiah and Jesus is the suffering servant messiah. Multiple allegorical layers weaved into one.
In Mark we also have narratives from Jesus ben Ananias (verbatim), Kings, Psalms, the wilderness narrative of Moses, elements of Isaiah 53, Zechariah 9-14, and Wisdom 2 as sources for his narratives, makes a version of Elisha in 2 Kings 4.17-37 and clearly reworks many of the stories from Paul or uses him verbatim. There are at least 6 peer-reviewed papers on this alone.
This isn't all of the sources but it does leave very little room for any oral tradition.
From these sources Mark is making this up.
Before you say this is considered a historical biography, Plutarch’s Life of Romulus is also written as a historical biography.
As we have seen the oral tradition is largely ruled out.
There were 40 gospels. The first canon was the Marcionite Canon. Completely unknown to us now. 2nd century was 50% Gnostic. For about One Hundred and Fifty Years different Gnostic Christians argued with Marcionite and other sects. All wildly different. The modern canon was decided in 367 AD. Because those 4 random documents match some early documents that doesn't mean much.
But the first 200 years being complete confusion really demonstrates there ARE NO FACTS here. Just competing legends.
As we have seen there is excellent evidence all 4 Gospels sourced Mark.
The consensus among mainstream scholars is the Gospel narratives are myth, loosely based on a person.
Habernas paper is bias and uses faulty methods.
Any events in a myth may be and are likely fiction.
If you believe apologists are only interested in telling things that are true rather than bending the truth in various ways to get results they set out to achieve you will always be wrong.
