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To: robowombat

I noticed you didn’t mention the Roman senator’s recorded writings. Obviously he knew what was going on in Judea, and what Pilate was doing.


16 posted on 10/19/2012 2:30:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I defer to any classicist here or a classical philologist but Tacitus comments in his ‘Historia’ never seem to be questioned as they are contemptuously dismissive of Christians and rate Jesus as a subversive hedge preacher. He makes the comments in discussing Nero’s search for a plausible scapegoat for the fire that destroyed a good part of Rome during his reign. Since Tacitus is considered a hostile witness and he gets several major items at variance to the orthodox Christian teaching in his comments on Christians and Jesus his writings are not considered a possible later interpolation.


20 posted on 10/19/2012 2:39:07 PM PDT by robowombat
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