Thuck on it.
Cassius Dio and the disappearing histories.
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Cassius Dio and the disappearing histories.
Quote:A similar mysterious gap exists in the Roman History of Cassius Dio:
all the years from 6 to 2 BCE are gone. There is evidence from remarks elsewhere
that Dio discussed Herod's death in this period. A Christian would
have expected Dio to discuss the slaughter of the innocents and the miraculous
star and other amazing events surrounding the birth of Jesus, and Dio's
silence on all of these might have been just as embarrassing as the silence
of Tacitus. That this loss might be no accident is suggested by the fact that
it is quite thorough-even subsequent epitomes exclude it-combined with
the coincidence of date: the gap beginning exactly two years before Herod's
death, in accordance with Mt. 2. 16, and ending two years after it for good
measure (there being at the time some uncertainty among Christians as
to when exactly Herod died). What about Dio's treatment of the year 30?
Yes, something is mysteriously missing around there, too. In the middle of
volume 58, covering the years 29 to 37 CE, we have a reference to an event
(in 58.17.2) that was evidently described in a section that had to have been
deleted somewhere between 57.17.8 (the year 15) and 58.7.2 (the year 30).
Might it have been a section also mentioning Judean affairs, whose silence
was again considered too embarrassing to retain?
OTHJ - pg. 304
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