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From: hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen)
Subject: Re: Noah & other bible myths
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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 22:49:14 GMT
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In article <4sotjp$404@atlas.xylogics.com>,
Jack King <jking@alnitak.xylogics.com> wrote:

[...]

>This really sounds hopeless, but let me give it one more shot.   
>The Roman historian Tacitus, who was no friend of Christianity,
>writing around 100 CE, tells of Nero's cruel persecution of the
>Christians and adds:
>
>       "Christus, the founder of the name, had undergone the
>   death penalty in the reign of Tiberius, by sentence of the
>   procurator Pontius Pilatus, and the pernicious superstition
>   was checked for a moment, only to break out once more, not
>   merely in Judea, the home of the disease, but the capital
>   [Rome] itself."  _The Annals, by Tacitus_, Book XV, p. 283

Um. That only proves that Tacitus heard the stories being told by those
persecuted Christians...



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