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Early classical authors on Jesus
Title
Early classical authors on Jesus / Margaret H. Williams, [University of Edinburgh, UK].
ISBN
9780567683151
056768315X
9780567683168
9780567683199
Publication
London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
xvi, 227 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
"Margaret Williams examines how classical writers saw and portrayed Jesus. The volume shows how each of the early classical writers who mentions him (the historian Tacitus; the biographer Suetonius; the epistolographer Pliny, the satirist Lucian and the philosopher Celsus) takes a different view of Jesus and presents him in a different way." -- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version : Williams, Margaret, 1947- Early classical authors on Jesus London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2023
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 15, 2023
Series
The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries ; 7
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
1. Introduction : another book on Jesus?
2. Pliny and Christus (I)
setting the scene
3. Pliny and Christus (II) : investigating the cult of Christ
4. Tacitus's testimony for 'Jesus' : authentic oe interpolated?
5. Tacitus on Christus : a master rhetorician at work
6. Suetonius and Christus : the third classical writer to refer to Jesus
7. Lucian of Samosaata : a satiriical take on Jesus
8. Celsus : the First serious pagan critic of Jesus
9. Celsus's trupartite assault on Jesus
10. Overview and conclusion
Appendices : Appendix 1 : Inscriptions relating to Pliny, Tacitus and Suetonius ; Appendix 2 : Suetonius and the arrangement of Material Per Species (by category) ; Appendix 3 : Suetonius's skill in source-evaluation ; Appendix 4 : Dhretus, the unknown (nd unknowable?) Claudian agitator
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