Response to Christopher Jones: The Historicity of the Neronian Persecution
In the Journal of Roman Studies of 2015, I argued that the evidence in Tacitus for a state-directed punishment of Christians in Rome in 64 ce was too weak to sustain the historical interpretation of it as a persecution. In a reply in this journal last year, Christopher Jones argued that knowledge of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2018]
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New Testament studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 231-242 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Nero, Römisches Reich, Kaiser 37-68
/ Christian persecution
/ Geschichte 64
/ Tacitus, Cornelius 55-120, Annales
/ Historicity
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Nero
B Christians B Nazoreans B Tacitus B Peter B Persecution B Paul |
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| Summary: | In the Journal of Roman Studies of 2015, I argued that the evidence in Tacitus for a state-directed punishment of Christians in Rome in 64 ce was too weak to sustain the historical interpretation of it as a persecution. In a reply in this journal last year, Christopher Jones argued that knowledge of Christians under that name could well have reached Rome by the mid-60s, that the vulgus of the city could well have accused such persons, and that the Tacitean account is therefore generally credible. While admitting the justice of some of his criticisms, I attempt in this reply to clarify some of my arguments and to restate my original claim that a persecution of Christians by the emperor Nero in connection with the Great Fire of 64 seems improbable given the context of the relations between officials of the Roman state and Christians over the first century ce. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
| Reference: | Kritik von "The Historicity of the Neronian Persecution (2017)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688517000352 |