Just here on Easter to remind you that Jesus was a real historical figure
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If Jesus was a real historical figure how come we don't have any records. First author who mentions Jesus is the Apostle Paul and he's writing in the 50s. Jesus died around the year 30. So, the first time we have Jesus mentioned in any source is about 20 years after his death.
What about all that Jewish "great" kings? :) Where is any historical records of existence of Saul, David, Solomon and others? Where is any historical records of existense of so called "Israel kingdom"? There is no any contemporary third-party historical documents that could independently prove any existence of Israel or Judea at the time. :) First mention of any Jewish settlement in that area dated only by ~850BC by Assirians. Long past all that "kings" and "kingdoms". Assirians was there thousand years before and never mentioned any Jewish state in their writings. None of Ancient Egyptians, Babilonians, Phinikians, Philistinians, Greeks and other developed nations of the time ever mentioned any Jewish state at the time. That biblical ancient "Israel kingdom" exists only in texts written by Jews long after the events.
There is also no any historical records of any founders of so called "12 tribes of Israel". There is also no any historical proof that Jews are descendants of biblical Jacob.
As for Jesus Christ, there is independent historical record about Him. Tacitus, Ancient Rome senator and later consul, official person of Rome and established historian wrote directly about fact that under Tiberius, procurator Pilat executed a person named Christ. (Tacitus, "Annals" XV:44) So, unlike with all that Jewish "superheroes" (supervillains, really, if you will use your brain when reading Old Testament) from Old Testament we have independent third-party historical record about the existence of a real person named Christ who was executed by Pilat, and who started a Christian movement. Tacitus in no way was Christian and even named Christianity "superstition". So he definitely have no interest in inventing something that was not a historical fact about Christ.
Israel and Yahweh both have a few historical citations prior to 1000 BC, and David has a few by name shortly after. Shoshenq I left records in Byblos, Megiddo, and Karnak of his conquest of named cities of Israel in 925 BC, exactly the time at which the Bible chronology says he (under the name Shishak) attacked Solomon's son Rehoboam. But Israel was generally recognized as similar to other Semitic tribes, i.e. they were Hyksos and Aamu; Abisha the Hyksos was drawn for a hieroglyphic display at around the time Abraham's family kept visiting pharaohs like Sesostris.
I'm pretty confident that the pig-free settlements go back to ca. 1200 BC, that being the primary marker of the Israelites seeing as such nomads left very few other traces.
[Assyrian] "Sennacherib's third campaign, directed against the kingdoms and city-states in the Levant, is very well-documented compared to many other events in the ancient Near East and is the best-documented event in the history of Israel during the First Temple period." https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sennacherib&oldid=1345345960
You suggest the Philistinians should have left records about a Jewish state. Did the Peleset people leave any records about anything at all?
You say "There is also no any historical proof that Jews are descendants of biblical Jacob." Why are they called "Jews" then if they don't come from Judah? What would be wrong with identifying the founder of the tribe by that name and the founder of the Levites among them as Judah's brother Levi?
Thank you for supporting Jesus, I appreciate your views generally and am not speaking or asking antagonistically. All records of Jesus indicate that he believed literally in Adam, Noah, Abraham, Israel, Levi, Judah, Moses, David, and Solomon. Was he wrong?
Using jewish-controlled pedowikia as a source of knowledge, especially historical is a sign of dementia. Pedowikia have very biased approach to so called "reliable sources". They account even CNN and ADL as "reliable sources", so there is no way they have different approach for historical ones.
Philistinians had their own language and script. Script is Cypro-Minoan, language is Indo-European. There are many ancient still undeciphered writings on clay tablets found on Cyprus and on the Eastern coast of Midterranean Sea. Attempts to study and decipher Philistinian tablets for some reason was made mostly by Soviet archeologists, with partial success, it was enough to determine language is Indo-European, and get some clue about the topics of writings on artifacts, but definitely not enough to create full dictionary and decipher everything. There are dozens if not hundreds of Philistinian tablets in Nicosia museum on Cyprus (looks like https://history.eco/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/kipr-min-1705130_600.jpg) and many in hands of archeologists in other countries. However, for "some" reason, much rare, smaller and more cryptic Etruscans writings attract much more interest in the Western archeology than anything connected with Philistinians. Guess why. :)
As for Jesus and His references to the Jewish historical characters - He obviously had to rely on cultural references of the people who already have own legends and beliefs in attempt to bring the Jews to senses.
If I will try to explain something for American buddy using in examples some references to Superman, Huckleberry Finn and Forrest Gump to make my arguments more clear for one who have completely different cultural background, that will not make all that fictional characters real.
If even I understand that it is wise to talk to people in terms and language they understand, then Jesus definitely understand that too. His references to Jewish legend's characters in no way a proof of their existence or non-existense,