(December 20, 2012 at 2:25 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:Did you not read the link you just reposted? It explains why the passage is genuine and lists a dozen other authors who give good reference to Tacitus.(December 16, 2012 at 4:27 am)Undeceived Wrote: Tacitus: http://www.tektonics.org/jesusexist/tacitus.html
From wikipedia.
Quote:No early Christian writers refer to Tacitus even when discussing the subject of Nero and Christian persecution. Tertullian, Lactantius, Sulpicius Severus, Eusebius and Augustine of Hippo make no reference to Tacitus when discussing Christian persecution by Nero.[50] If authentic, the passage would constitute one of the earliest, if not the earliest (see: Josephus on Jesus) non-Christian references to Jesus. Those critical of the passage's authenticity argue that early Christian writers likely would have sought to establish the historicity of Jesus via secular or non-Christian documents, and that their silence with regard to the Annals in this manner may suggest that the passage did not exist in early manuscripts.
Here it is again: http://www.tektonics.org/jesusexist/tacitus.html