Tacitus is probably a much later forgery which is common with jesus freaks since there were no legitimate historical references so they invented some.
The best case scenario is that Tacitus repeated what some xtian told him and even that seems to be a stretch since we have no indication of this bullshit existing in the first century.
Much of what Tacitus wrote turns up in the much later work of Sulpicius Severus....at least as far as Nero is concerned. In fact, even early xtian writers knew nothing of Nero persecuting xtians for the Great Fire in Rome.
The best case scenario is that Tacitus repeated what some xtian told him and even that seems to be a stretch since we have no indication of this bullshit existing in the first century.
Much of what Tacitus wrote turns up in the much later work of Sulpicius Severus....at least as far as Nero is concerned. In fact, even early xtian writers knew nothing of Nero persecuting xtians for the Great Fire in Rome.
