>there were. substantial parts of daniel were written in syriac, which is a form of aramaic.
Ok ok, I was really talking about NT texts not ancient Jewish forgeries like Daniel, but that's ok
>that theory of yours by the way is really dumb, bud. you have pappias, the daughters of philip, polycarp, irenaeus, clement of rome, justin martyr, tacitus, suetonius, and many others who discussed Christ whose writings have been lost to history.
Unfortunately (1) all of the Christians in that list were writing well into the 2nd century, at least 150 years after Jesus' supposed death, so they don't count as evidence of anything besides what people at that time thought and (2) all those Romans you mentioned didn't actually write anything about Jesus, contrary to what you read on Wikipedia just now and (3) making a claim along the lines of "Jesus definitely existed because lots of people wrote about him but those documents have been lost" is not any kind of valid argument.
>Within a decade of Christs death and resurrection, you were having non canonical (though cherished by the early Christians) and canonical writings start to crop up.
No-one doubts that there were Christians in the mid-1st century. The dispute is about whether they believed in a Jesus who only appeared in dreams, or a flesh and blood Jesus who actually walked the Earth.
>dude, just read your own books, read original sources
What original sources? We have the Gospel of Mark, probably the Gospel of Thomas, maybe the authentic Pauline epistles, and that's it.
>Also rwmember that region was a backwater
That part of the world was a flourishing centre of economic activity. It was hardly a backwater like, say, Britain was.
>still though, the Jesus myth theory is one of the most irritatingly retarded dan brown tier theories out there
Then it should be easy to refute without using documents which might have existed but no longer do, and without using forged/2nd century documents