Please inform all historians of your notion of the vast superiority of millennia-later biased speculation over against written contemporary testimony.
Also kindly let archeologists know that they can cease their exploration, as you have done away with the role of hard data.
And finally, as you consider yourself an authority on the thinking of all Jews who ever lived, and regard it as monolithic, could you please give us a detailed description of what all Jews believe on everything, and what no mob of Jews would ever say? I can think of three Jews I know fairly well; and their beliefs are quite diverse.
But of course, untethered to actual historical (or other) data, you can unravel this all for us, no?
Dan
So we're not allowed to make movies that follow the accounts given in Scripture? Does that include a movie about Moses - - we can't follow the Scriptural text? Or a movie about David? or Solomon? Somehow I doubt you'd be arguing against a faithful adherence to Scripture in those cases.
My experience is that some Jews simply don't like Jesus, or his name or worship of him. I was at a church function once where Normal Lear was the featured speaker. It was right after a church service (he had sat through the service) -- he said, "The service was nice and the music was nice, but there was too much Jesus." He said this, it seemed, with a straight face -- how incredibly arrogant to tell christians they shouldn't be worshipping the one they believe is the Messiah! Foxman has the same arrogance - and a dislike of Jesus, it seems to me.