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My point is not that there should be something before common era - obviously, it's no use searching for account of a person not yet born.
It's rather that they're not contemporary, which puts the same question as to the birth of Caesar - why they, why only then, and how can we be sure of accuracy? Moreover, by then the early Christianity has already developed, so it could just be answering their accounts.
We don't have any contemporary accounts of Alexander the Great either - the earliest account comes 400 years later. While the earliest account of Jesus is from (less than) 20 years after he ascended. That's just history for that time. You'd be hard pressed to have accounts of anybody written in their time. Even Pompeii - which was likely witnessed by 250,000 people, and killed many Roman elite- the earliest account of that is 30 years after the fact.
Fair enough. I see where you're coming from. Thanks for answering!
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