Quote:The book was probably written c.66-70 CE, during Nero's persecution of the Christians in Rome or the Jewish revolt, as suggested by internal references to war in Judea and to persecution
Consider that line from the article, Max.
Here is the problem with this line of thinking. The only reference to such a persecution comes from Tacitus and no other writer - pagan or xtian until the 5th century - knows anything about a) Tacitus' alleged comment or b) Nero's supposed "persecution" of xtians.
However, there was war in Judaea in 135 AD as well as persecution of Jews involved in the crushing of the bar Kochba revolt. So there is a bit of a Rohrschact test going on here with these supposed xtian scholars who see what they wish to see and bend the facts to fit their deeply held desires.
