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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tacitus

Tacitus makes use of the official sources of the Roman state: the acta senatus (the minutes of the sessions of the Senate) and the acta diurna populi Romani (a collection of the acts of the government and news of the court and capital). He also read collections of emperors' speeches, such as those of Tiberius and Claudius. He is generally seen[by whom?] as a scrupulous historian who paid careful attention to his sources. The minor inaccuracies in the Annals may be due to Tacitus dying before he had finished (and therefore before he had proof-read) his work.

Tacitus cites some of his sources directly, among them Cluvius Rufus, Fabius Rusticus and Pliny the Elder, who had written Bella Germaniae and a historical work which was the continuation of that of Aufidius Bassus. Tacitus also uses collections of letters (epistolarium). He also took information from exitus illustrium virorum. These were a collection of books by those who were antithetical to the emperors. They tell of sacrifices by martyrs to freedom, especially the men who committed suicide. While he places no value on the Stoic theory of suicide and views suicides as ostentatious and politically useless, Tacitus often gives prominence to speeches made by those about to commit suicide, for example Cremutius Cordus' speech in Ann. IV, 34–35.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus

Perhaps to clear things up you should provide primary accounts of historical documentation from 2,000 years ago that refute Tacitus and Josephus. Primary accounts that have never been translated that prove there was no Jesus.

I am sure you can link to those and prove he never existed.[/quote]

I'm not saying they are wrong or should be refuted, just that they can't be confirmed and aren't really "evidence". These manuscripts are hearsay, at best.

And there was certainly the possibility of tweaking between the time they were supposedly written until the earliest known manuscripts. Either intentionally or accidentally translated incorrectly. 
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