Mario: As the well known New Testament scholar FF Bruce said that we have anything about Jesus from this period outside of internal sources is amazing. This was initially a small movement on the edge of the Roman Empire, a little like asking what is going on in Fiji in Chicago. There was no major political role for this movement for some time and that is what historians tended to write about. So that we have anything is the surprise. If we go to the early second century, then we begin to see more with Tacitus and Suetonius, since the impact of the movement starts to show up in Rome (all the way from Jerusalem in about 20 years as the expulsion fo Jews in AD 49 from Rome is probably a product of Jewish-Christian tensions). dlb