On "Scholarly Consensus"

[Doubting Thomas]

And yet, Tacitus tells us that during Tiberius' reign all was quiet in Judaea.

Both stories cannot be true.

Ah, I was not aware. I'll have to look that up sometime. Everything I'd heard up until now was that Pilate ran things with an iron fist and crucified many Jewish leaders.

Or perhaps the reason all was quiet is everyone was scared shitless?

Or maybe they were all afraid of the Judean People's Front.