credoconsolans
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2005
- Messages
- 2,900
- Location
- Texas
- Basic Beliefs
- neopagan leaning toward moral relativism
not for the Great Fire of Rome anyway.
Candida Moss, author of my favorite recent book "The Myth of Persecution" writes
"...Most of the historical evidence for Nero persecuting Christians comes to us from the writings of the Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote between 115-120 CE, at least fifty years after the events he was describing...
In his recent Journal of Roman Studies article “The Myth of the Neronian Persecution,” distinguished Princeton classicist Brent Shaw has argued that Tacitus’s story is a later fabrication..."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/nero-t...-biggest-fake-news-in-early-christian-history
Candida Moss, author of my favorite recent book "The Myth of Persecution" writes
"...Most of the historical evidence for Nero persecuting Christians comes to us from the writings of the Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote between 115-120 CE, at least fifty years after the events he was describing...
In his recent Journal of Roman Studies article “The Myth of the Neronian Persecution,” distinguished Princeton classicist Brent Shaw has argued that Tacitus’s story is a later fabrication..."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/nero-t...-biggest-fake-news-in-early-christian-history