[djmcmath]

IROC -- Cornelius Tacitus, Suetonius, Pliny the Younger, Thallus, Mara Bar-Serapion, and of course, Josephus, to name a few. I'm sure I'm missing a few, but those are off the top of my head.

Not sharp -- the current scholarly view is that most of the NT was written between 50 and 100AD, or within 15-65 years of the events. We actually have manusripts that date to before 100AD, so it's tough to argue an 80+ year gap. The Quran was written as it was happening -- Mohammed wrote it down real time -- no comparison, there.