Early Classical Authors on Jesus

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AvMargaret H. Williams,UK) Williams, Dr. Margaret H. (University of Edinburgh,Chris Keith

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Margaret H. Williams 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.Williams 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. Williams considers these different depictions and questions why these writers had such differing views of Jesus. To answer this question Williams 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-06-27
Mått150 x 229 x 8 mm
Vikt380 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieReception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries
Antal sidor244
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780567708656

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Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1. Another Book on Jesus? Chapter 2. Pliny and Christus (i) – Setting the SceneChapter 3. Pliny and Christus (ii) – Investigating the Cult of ChristChapter 4. Tacitus’s Testimony for ‘Jesus’ – Authentic or Interpolated?Chapter 5. Tacitus on Christus – a Master Rhetorician at WorkChapter 6. Suetonius and Chrestus – the Third Classical Writer to Refer to Christ?Chapter 7. Lucian of Samosata – a Satirical Take on JesusChapter 8. Celsus – the First Serious Pagan Critic of JesusChapter 9. Celsus’s Tripartite Assault on JesusChapter 10. Overview and ConclusionAppendicesAppendix 1. Inscriptions Relating to Pliny, Tacitus and SuetoniusAppendix 2. Suetonius’s skill in source-evaluation: Gaius 8.1-5 and Div. Aug.7.1-2Appendix 3. Suetonius’s Compositional PracticesApendix 4. Chrestus, the Unknown (and Unknowable?) Claudian AgitatorBibliographyAuthor Index

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