The "Pilate Stone" is a damaged block of carved limestone with a partially intact inscription mentioning Pontius Pilate, a prefect of the Roman province of Judea from AD 26 to 36.

And I don’t think you’ve taken a university history course beyond the undergraduate freshman level.

The idea of The New Testament being “the most well-corroborated and well-preserved text from ancient history” truly is totally uncontroversial within academia. It’s established to the point of consensus, and to the point of just being axiomatic. Anyone, like you, who claims otherwise, really just doesn’t know what they’re saying.


I suspect you have an impulse to pretend otherwise, out of some misplaced assumption that conceding that point might lead you to having to admit some weakness of the atheist worldview, or whatever. But it’s totally unrelated to that sort of concern. We’re just talking about the historicity of the documents. We’re not talking about these texts actually being true about their spiritual or so called “supernatural” claims. That’s a separate conversation entirely.

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