(August 9, 2017 at 1:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I'm not surprised that you did not find much. Generally when looking for something it helps if you are really trying to find it.
Still.... it took no time at all for me to find, in Book V which begins with 29AD (and was intended to proceed to 31 AD) during the historically attested consulships of Fufius and Rubeliius there is a discussion of Tiberius and Sejanus and then this note appears in the text.
Quote:[The remainder of the fifth book and the beginning of the sixth, recounting Sejanus' marriage and fall and covering a space of nearly three years, are lost. Newer editions of Tacitus mark the division between the fifth and sixth books at this point rather than at the end of section 11; but references are regularly made to the older numbering, and so it has been retained here. The beginning of section 6 is obviously fragmentary.]
Book VI, not so coincidentally states that it covers 32-37 AD and duly begins with the historically recorded consulships of Domitius and Camillus.
And not a word about xtians or jesus or in fact anything to do with Palestine at all.
Again, I fully understand your desire not to find. That's why we have real scholars in the world and do not waste our time with fundies.
http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.5.v.html
Ok... I found that as I posted before (some books are missing and others are fragmented, much like other documents from that time) I was looking for information on it being "surgically removed" or information about the manuscript itself to support your claim.
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