n one letter from Pliny to Trajan (Letters 10.96-97), written ca. 112 CE, Pliny asked for advice on dealing with Christians and recounted a trial in which he prosecuted them
2ம் நூற்றாண்டின் பிற்பகுதிக்கு முன் கிறிஸ்துவம் ரோமில் நுழைந்தமைக்கு ஆதாரம் இல்லை என ரோமன் கத்தோலிக்க நூல்கள் உறுதி செய்கையில், இது யூதர்களை குறிக்கலாம்.
அன்னல்ஸ் 15.44 இன் ஆதாரத்தையும் உண்மைத்தன்மையையும் கேள்விக்கு உட்படுத்த நிறைய இருக்கிறது. ரோம் எரிக்கப்பட்டதற்காக நீரோ கிறிஸ்தவர்களை துன்புறுத்தினார்என்பதற்கு வேறு எந்த வரலாற்று உறுதிப்படுத்தலும் இல்லை. கி.பி 64 இல் ரோமில் இருந்த ஜோசபஸ் மற்றும் பிளினி தி எல்டர் - கிறிஸ்தவர்களைப் பற்றி சிறிதும் குறிப்பிடவில்லை, நீரோ தீக்கு குற்றம் சாட்டியிருந்தால் அது சாத்தியமில்லை. 4 ஆம் நூற்றாண்டில் அகஸ்டின் கருத்துப்படி, செனெகா தி யங்கரின் இழந்த மூடநம்பிக்கை கிறிஸ்தவத்தையும் குறிப்பிடவில்லை.
ஓரிஜென் அல்லது டெர்டுல்லியன் இருவரும் டேசிடஸைக் குறிப்பிடவில்லை அல்லது மேற்கோள் காட்டியிருந்தாலும் இந்த பத்தியைப் பயன்படுத்த வில்லை. டசிட்டஸுக்குப் பிறகு மூன்று நூற்றாண்டுகளில் கிறிஸ்தவ படைப்புகள், ரோம் எரிக்கப்பட்டதற்காக நீரோ கிறிஸ்தவர்களைத் துன்புறுத்தியதாக குறிப்பிடவில்லை.
Remsburg, who in 1909 felt there was enough to 'support' the existence of a historical Jesus, wrote:
This passage, accepted as authentic by many, must be declared doubtful, if not spurious, for the following reasons:
- It is not quoted by the Christian fathers.
- Tertullian was familiar with the writings of Tacitus, and his arguments demanded the citation of this evidence had it existed.
- Clement of Alexandria, at the beginning of the third century, made a compilation of all the recognitions of Christ and Christianity that had been made by Pagan writers up to his time. The writings of Tacitus furnished no recognition of them.
- Origen, in his controversy with Celsus, would undoubtedly have used it had it existed.
- The ecclesiastical historian Eusebius, in the fourth century, cites all the evidences of Christianity obtainable from Jewish and Pagan sources, but makes no mention of Tacitus.
- It is not quoted by any Christian writer prior to the fifteenth century.
- At this time but one copy of the Annals existed and this copy, it is claimed, was made in the eighth century -- 600 years after the time of Tacitus.
- As this single copy was in the possession of a Christian the insertion of a forgery was easy.
- Its severe criticisms of Christianity do not necessarily disprove its Christian origin. No ancient witness was more desirable than Tacitus, but his introduction at so late a period would make rejection certain unless Christian forgery could be made to appear improbable.
- It is admitted by Christian writers that the works of Tacitus have not been preserved with any considerable degree of fidelity. In the writings ascribed to him are believed to be some of the writings of Quintilian.
- The blood-curdling story about the frightful orgies of Nero reads like some Christian romance of the dark ages, and not like Tacitus.
- In fact, this story, in nearly the same words, omitting the reference to Christ, is to be found in the writings of Sulpicius Severus, a Christian of the fifth century.
- Suetonius, while mercilessly condemning the reign of Nero, says that in his public entertainments he took particular care that no human lives should be sacrificed, "not even those of condemned criminals."
- At the time that the conflagration occurred, Tacitus himself declares that Nero was not in Rome, but at Antium.
Many who accept the authenticity of this section of the "Annals" believe that the sentence which declares that Christ was punished in the reign of Pontius Pilate, and which I have italicized, is an interpolation.
Raphael Lataster has pointed out several other problems with the passage e.g., in a paper in Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies,[6] titled "Questioning the Plausibility of Jesus Ahistoricity Theories—A Brief Pseudo-Bayesian Metacritique of the Sources",
- "It is questionable if a non-Christian historian would refer to this person as 'Christ' rather than the more secular Jesus of Nazareth."
- "Though Annals covers the period of Rome’s history from around 14 CE to 66 CE, no other mention is made of Jesus Christ.
- The book/s of Annals that refer to the time of Jesus of Nazareth -in the time of Tiberius- are missing so cannot provide corroboration.
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