Quote:Tacitus wrote the Annals in 116 AD so it doesn't look as if the early Christians waited until his book was published before deciding to believe that somebody had been crucified.
Early xtian writers never mention Tacitus' at all. He is not a factor in what the earliest xtian writers said or thought or wrote.
http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=reledne...jesus.html
Quote:The reason no commentator made reference to this passage before the 15th century is that the entire “Annals” in which it appears was unknown until the purported “discovery” made by Johannes de 1468.
Xtians with a built in bias in favor of their godboy are perfectly willing to overlook the problems with the Tacitus reference. I am not.
