ALTHOUGH I enjoy reading your columnist Seán Moncrieff, I would like to take him to task for stating (December 24) that there are only two historical references to Jesus outside of the gospels.

Israeli archaeologists today said they’ve stumbled upon the site of one of the great dramatic scenes of the Roman sacking of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago – the subterranean drainage channel Jews used to escape from the city’s Roman conquerors.