Josephus, who covers the entire history of the region for the first few decades, has nothing more than a few lines to write about the most influential 'man' of all time? Why does he only have a couple of sentences? Why in general is there pitifully little biographical information on Jesus? Where does he go for about 20 years between his appearance in the Gospels and his 'childhood'?
Hmmm....could it possibly be that nothing significant, regarding His ministry or His purpose for coming, happened until such time? And, last time I checked, Jesus was a carpenter, by trade, not exactly front-page news material. The fact that a carpenter from Nazareth, (as the saying went,
"Can anything good come from Nazareth"?) got two lines in a document, written by an official Jewish scribe under the employ of Rome, would indicate that this was no ordinary guy.
Furthermore, Jesus' status as the "most influential man of all time" is a relatively modern, one He certaintly didn't have in 1st century A.D. Remember that He died as a criminal by crucifixion and as another Hebrew saying went,
"Cursed is everyone who hangs from a tree".
However, the fact that how we tell time was/is based on His life (B.C. and A.D.) shows the influence that Jesus had/has on Earth, to this day. I know some non-Christians prefer the terms BCE (Before Christian/Common Era) and CE (Christian/Common Era). But, B.C. and A.D. is still the way that many folks dictate time periods on Earth.
BTW, you never got back to me on Nazareth, which according to the best archaeology didn't exist until the 3rd century CE.
And you never got back to me on showing a copy of the Testmonium that has no reference to Jesus Christ.
I have no problem doubting Alexander's existence. Nothing hinges on his existence; perhaps it was multiple people generaling about. Who knows? Much less hinges on that. You are right, we lack the evidence for Alexander that we have for example for a Julius Caesar.
The point wasn't about what hinges or doesn't hinge with Alex's existence. The simple fact is you can accept the existence of Alex the Great, based largely on documents about him, penned two to four centuries after his existence. Same goes for Julius Caesar. Just as it is with Alex the Great, some of the earliest-known manuscripts, containing significant info on Caesar (i.e.
The Gallic Wars), dates centuries after his lifetime.
Yet, for some reason, that becomes a problem, when it comes to the existence of Jesus Christ, despite having information about Him FAR CLOSER to his lifetime than the info on Alex is to his time period.