[rollo tomasi]

Tacitus was born 20 odd years after the cruxifixtion took place not over a hundred. Heck the Annals were written around 109AD. The cruxifixtion took place around 30 AD. 109-30 does not equal over hundred years.

Why would a Roman Emperor commission someone to write a biography about a person who claimed He was the Son of God? Do you understand Jesus teachings ran contrary to the Roman Empire. Again why would the Romans want to market Jesus Christ message? Romans were trying hard to suppress Jesus not give His followers ammunition.

[Alter Kaker]

Tacitus was born 20 odd years after the cruxifixtion took place not over a hundred. Heck the Annals were written around 109AD. The cruxifixtion took place around 30 AD. 109-30 does not equal over hundred years.

Sorry, my mistake. Not 100, just 79. It's simply the equivalent of writing reminiscenses of Calvin Coolidge in the year 2005 -- a little suspect.

Why would a Roman Emperor commission someone to write a biography about a person who claimed He was the Son of God?

Oh, I'm sure there's lots of reasons why they wouldn't do that, but you're still giving an argument from a lack of evidence, which isn't particularly persuasive. Augustus probably also would have had reasons for covering up a short-lived extraterrestrial invasion too -- maybe the glaring ommission of any reference to such an event could be taken as proof of a coverup.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Romans were trying hard to suppress Jesus not give His followers ammunition.

Sure they would love to surpress the message of a Torah observant Jew but the Jesus that was morphing into some sort of glorified mithraism was just dandy.