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- Title
Chrestiani, Christiani, Χριστιανοί: a Second Century Anachronism?
- Authors
Granger Cook, John
- Abstract
Brent D. Shaw has questioned the historicity of the Neronian persecution based on two arguments from silence: Tacitus's use of the term "Christians" is an anachronism; and Suetonius knows of no connection between the fire in Rome and Nero's police actions against the Christians. Both of these untestable arguments from silence are inherently weak logically. One can make a good case for the claim that Chrestianus, Christianus , and Χριστιανός are not creations of the second century and that Roman officials were probably aware of the Chrestiani in the 60s. Tacitus's and Suetonius's accounts of the persecution are fundamentally reliable.
- Subjects
SHAW, Brent D.; CHRISTIAN identity; ROMAN history
- Publication
Vigiliae Christianae, 2020, Vol 74, Issue 3, p237
- ISSN
0042-6032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15700720-12341410