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RCPTN OF JESUS FIRST THREE CEN: EARLY CLSSCL AUTH JESUS

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<P>The author of this book examines how classical writers saw and portrayed Jesus, engaging with the fact that as the originator of a new (and still existing) world religion, Jesus of Nazareth, otherwise known as Christus (Christ), is an individual of indisputable historical significance. She shows how from the outset Jesus was a controversial figure. Contemporary Jews in the Roman province of Judaea tended either to adore or to abhor him. When indue course his fame spread throughout the wider Roman empire, reactions to him there among both Jews and non-Jews were no less divergent. Each of the early classical writers who makes mention of him, the historian Tacitus, the biographer Suetonius, the epistolographer Pliny and the satirist Lucian, takes a different view of him and presents him in a different way. The author considers these different depictions and questions why these writers had such differing views of Jesus. To answer this question she examines not only to the different literary conventions by which each of these writers was bound but also to the social, cultural and religious contexts in which they operated.</P>

Early Classical Authors on Jesus

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Preface.
Abbreviations.
1: Another Book on Jesus?.
2: Pliny and Christus (I): Setting the Scene.
3: Pliny and Christus (II): Investigating the Cult of Christ.
4: Tacitus&#x2019;s Testimony for &#x2018;Jesus&#x2019;: Authentic or Interpolated?.
5: Tacitus on Christus: A Master Rhetorician at Work.
6: Suetonius and Chrestus: The Third Classical Writer to Refer to Christ?.
7: Lucian of Samosata: A Satirical Take on Jesus.
8: Celsus: The First Serious Pagan Critic of Jesus.
9: Celsus&#x2019;s Tripartite Assault on Jesus.
10: Overview and Conclusion.
Appendix 1: Inscriptions Relating to Pliny, Tacitus and Suetonius.
Appendix 2: Suetonius and the Arrangement of Material Per Species (by Category).
Appendix 3: Suetonius&#x2019;s Skill in Source-evaluation.
Appendix 4: Chrestus, the Unknown (and Unknowable?) Claudian Agitator.
Bibliography.
Index of Authors.
Index of Subjects.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Preface.
Abbreviations.
1: Another Book on Jesus?.
2: Pliny and Christus (I): Setting the Scene.
3: Pliny and Christus (II): Investigating the Cult of Christ.
4: Tacitus&#x2019;s Testimony for &#x2018;Jesus&#x2019;: Authentic or Interpolated?.
5: Tacitus on Christus: A Master Rhetorician at Work.
6: Suetonius and Chrestus: The Third Classical Writer to Refer to Christ?.
7: Lucian of Samosata: A Satirical Take on Jesus.
8: Celsus: The First Serious Pagan Critic of Jesus.
9: Celsus&#x2019;s Tripartite Assault on Jesus.
10: Overview and Conclusion.
Appendix 1: Inscriptions Relating to Pliny, Tacitus and Suetonius.
Appendix 2: Suetonius and the Arrangement of Material Per Species (by Category).
Appendix 3: Suetonius&#x2019;s Skill in Source-evaluation.
Appendix 4: Chrestus, the Unknown (and Unknowable?) Claudian Agitator.
Bibliography.
Index of Authors.
Index of Subjects.

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Early Classical Authors on Jesus