11-16-2010, 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by arnoldo
Interestingly, in his essay, Mr. Fitzgerald makes the argument that the historicity of Caesar crossing of the Rubicon in 49 B.C. can be verified in part by historians such as Seutonius. Note (from essay previously cited),
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. . . Fourth, almost every historian of the period reports the Rubicon crossing including the most prominent of the Roman age: Suetonius, Appian, Cassius Dio, and Plutarch. . .
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Therefore Seutonius’s account of Jews revolting in Rome in 49 A.D. at the instigation of Chrestus cannot be easily dismissed as a myth.
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The authenticity of Suetonious' "Chrestus" passage is not disputed, as far as I know. It just doesn't have anything to do with Jesus.
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