> Your ignorance of the Jewish culture is also extensive
Maybe so. But that doesn't address my arguement.
If paper is expensive, publication is prohibitive, and the Empire is laoded with flash-in-the-pan cults, many based on the same sort of Messiah... how much effort would you devote to debunking every single one individually? For frap's sake, how many other cults were debunked like you think Christianity would have been had it been wrong?
it addresses the argument, and quite well. Jews consider their genealogy to be of the utmost importance, and records were, and are, kept. When Jesus made his claim, it would have been an easy thing for them to corroborate. It was common for them to be able to trace their lines back to Adam. Read the Books of Chronicles if you don't believe me.