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[Article]

a Second Century Anachronism?

John Granger Cook

Leiden

Brill

Brent D. Shaw has questioned the historicity of the Neronian persecution based on two arguments from silence: Tacitus's use of the term "Christians" is an anachronism; and Suetonius knows of no connection between the fire in Rome and Nero's police actions against the Christians. Both of these untestable arguments from silence are inherently weak logically. One can make a good case for the claim that Chrestianus, Christianus, and Χριστιανός are not creations of the second century and that Roman officials were probably aware of the Chrestiani in the 60s. Tacitus's and Suetonius's accounts of the persecution are fundamentally reliable. Brent D. Shaw has questioned the historicity of the Neronian persecution based on two arguments from silence: Tacitus's use of the term "Christians" is an anachronism; and Suetonius knows of no connection between the fire in Rome and Nero's police actions against the Christians. Both of these untestable arguments from silence are inherently weak logically. One can make a good case for the claim that Chrestianus, Christianus, and Χριστιανός are not creations of the second century and that Roman officials were probably aware of the Chrestiani in the 60s. Tacitus's and Suetonius's accounts of the persecution are fundamentally reliable.

2020

237-264

Vigiliae Christianae

74/3

1570-0720

Chrestiani

Christiani

Neronian persecution

John Granger Cook

10.1163/15700720-12341410

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