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	Tacitus and Jesus. Christ Myth Refuted. Did Jesus Exist? A Christian Response
		Tacitus would not have had permission to consult the imperial archives, and even if he did, it was not his regular practice to consult written documents.
		Tacitus was well-respected, a man who "won renown quickly," and "seemed of all the eminent men then active the most worthy of imitation." His reputation was such that in a letter of recommendation for a particular young man, Pliny indicates that being a friend of Tacitus is considered to be a sign of high quality.
		Tacitus is content to use the rumors to besmirch by association Livia and Tiberius who, whatever their failings, never displayed the deranged malice of an Agrippina and a Nero.
	www.tektonics.org /jesusexist/tacitus.html (7201 words)

	Tacitus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A son of this Cornelius Tacitus is cited by Pliny the Elder as an example of abnormally rapid growth and aging (N.H.), implying an early death.
		Tacitus was able to consult the official sources of the Roman state: the acta senatus (the minutes of the session of the Senate) and the acta diurna populi Romani (a collection of the acts of the government and news of the court and capital).
		Tacitus is remembered first and foremost as Rome's greatest historian, the equal—if not the superior—of Thucydides, the ancient Greeks' foremost historian; the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica opined that he "ranks beyond dispute in the highest place among men of letters of all ages".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tacitus (4361 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Tacitus (55 CE)
		Tacitus is one of the earliest and most important of the authors who described early Latvian mythology, though his conclusions are suspect because he did not speak the language and did not stay in Latvia long.
		Tacitus, who ranks beyond dispute in the highest place among men of letters of all ages, lived through the reigns of the emperors Nero,; Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
		Tacitus was probably never a popular author; to be understood and appreciated he must be read again and again, or the point of some of his acutest remarks will be quite missed.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=85 (2427 words)

	Pliny, Tacitus, Josephus and Jesus: Why These Writers Don't Prove Jesus Existed
		The writings of Tacitus and Pliny do not prove the existence of Jesus as these authors were born late in the first century of the current era..
		Tacitus, who is never objective when he mentions Nero, probably had to balance this with the dislike of the Christians typical of the Roman pagans of his day against his dislike of Nero.
		Tacitus lived too far away from the events that supposedly took place in Galilee almost a hundred years before his birth to know about them first hand.
	roman-history.suite101.com /article.cfm/pliny_tacitus_josephus_and_jesus (564 words)

	Biblical books and the historical Jesus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After discussing references to the historical Jesus in the Epistles of Paul, France concludes that it is from the Gospels that we gain the bulk of the evidence for Jesus.
		Dunn goes on to demonstrate quite convincingly that Jesus considered himself uniquely to be God’s son and that the earliest Christians believed in the empty tomb and the bodily resurrection of Jesus.
		The Jesus Seminar are quite happy to challenge our most central claim about the Resurrection and there is no doubt that if their misguided researches were to tell them that Jesus was a pagan myth, they would be shouting it from the roof tops (or at least, the cover of Newsweek).
	www.bede.org.uk /books,jmyth.htm (4300 words)

	Evidence that Jesus never existed--T.W. Doane
		The argument that Jesus never existed is so trivial it’s relegated to Appendix D of the 1882 book "Bible Myths and their Parallels in Other Religions" by T.W. Doane.
		This Father has spoken of Tacitus in a way that it is absolutely impossible that he should have spoken of him, had his writings contained such a passage.
		Tacitus is also made to say that the Christians had their denomination from Christ, which would apply to any other of the so-called Christs who were put to death in Judea, as well as to Christ Jesus.
	home1.gte.net /deleyd/religion/appendixd4.html (2538 words)

	Jesus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jesus Christ is the only recognized religious leader who has ever claimed to be God and the only individual ever who has convinced a great portion of the world that He is God.
		If Jesus was a liar, then he was also a hypocrite because he told others to be honest and he himself would be living a colossal lie.
		Jesus then would have to be one -- a liar, a lunatic, or the Lord.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~pmaeda/paula/Jesus.html (234 words)

	The Reliability of the Secular References to Jesus
		Tacitus would not have had permission to consult the imperial archives, and even if he did, it was not his regular practice to consult written documents.
		Tacitus was well-respected, a man who "won renown quickly," and "seemed of all the eminent men then active the most worthy of imitation." His reputation was such that in a letter of recommendation for a particular young man, Pliny indicates that being a friend of Tacitus is considered to be a sign of high quality.
		Tacitus is content to use the rumors to besmirch by association Livia and Tiberius who, whatever their failings, never displayed the deranged malice of an Agrippina and a Nero.
	www.british-israel.ca /tacitus.htm (6865 words)

	TBK - Pliny, Tacitus and Suetonius: No Proof of Jesus
		While proconsul of Bithynia, a province in the northwest of Asia Minor, Pliny purportedly wrote a letter in 110 CE to the Emperor Trajan requesting his assistance in determining the proper punishment for "Christiani" who were causing trouble and would not renounce "Christo" as their god or bow down to the image of the Emperor.
		Even if the passage in Tacitus were genuine, it would be too late and is not from an eyewitness, such that it is valueless in establishing an "historical" Jesus, representing merely a recital of decades-old Christian tradition.
		But the passage in Josephus is unanimously acknowledged to be apocryphal [false], and to have been interpolated towards the close of the third centuryand that of Tacitus is so vague and so evidently taken from the deposition of the Christians before the tribunals, that it may be ranked in the class of evangelical records.
	www.truthbeknown.com /pliny.htm (2593 words)

	Who Was the Historical Jesus? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jesus lived in a peasant society during a time of great social turmoil between the colonialization of Palestine in 63 BCE by Rome to the devastation of the First Jewish Revolt (66-70 CE).
		Jesus was one such figure who gained a reputation during his life as both a miracle-worker and a wisdom teacher.
		Thus, Jesus was crucified by the fifth Roman procurator of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, who reigned from 26-36 CE before being dismissed by Syrian governor Vitellius for a bloody encounter with a Samaritan prophet and his followers.
	www.sullivan-county.com /news/mine/historical_jesus.htm (3130 words)

	The Muslim Jesus, known as ‘Isa
		When a Samaritan woman called Jesus a prophet (John 4:19) it was because he had spoken about things in her life that he could only have known supernaturally.
		The story of Jesus being born under a palm tree is also based on a late fable, as is the story of Jesus making clay birds come alive.
		Jesus’ alleged foretelling of Muhammad’s coming (As-Saff 61:6) appears to be based on a garbled reading of John 14:26, a passage which in fact refers to the Spirit.
	www.answering-islam.org /Intro/islamic_jesus.html (4430 words)

	Jesus.com.au - Cornelius Tacitus
		Hence, in spite of a guilt which had earned the most exemplary punishment, there arose a sentiment of pity, due to the impression that they were being sacrificed not for the welfare of the state but to the ferocity of a single man.
		The paragraph that mentions Jesus is integral to its context: Nero's life requires some account of the fire, for which somebody must be blamed.
		Tacitus may simply have related what he understood to be common knowledge.
	www.jesus.com.au /html/page/tacitus (728 words)

	Historicity Of Jesus FAQ
		This "FAQ", often referred to as the "Historicity of Jesus" FAQ, is neither exhaustive, nor does it attempt to answer the question of whether Jesus of Nazareth really lived or not.
		About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who wrought surprising feats and as a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly.
		In particular, Josephus probably did not claim that Jesus was the Messiah, or that he rose from the dead.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/scott_oser/hojfaq.html (2757 words)

	Jesus did not exist
		Tacitus mentions a Jesus, but it is likely that after a century of Christian preaching Tacitus was just reacting to these rumours, or probably talking about one of the many other Messiah's of the time.
		All elements of Jesus' life such as the events around his birth and death and ministry were also said of other god-men of the time.
		In other words, Jesus Christ and all the others upon whom this character is predicated are personifications of the sun, and the Gospel fable is merely a rehash of a mythological formula (the "Mythos," as mentioned above) revolving around the movements of the sun through the heavens.
	www.vexen.co.uk /religion/christianity_nojesus.html (1878 words)

	Cornelius Tacitus
		Rather, it could be that Tacitus relied upon a report that described the Christian sect and their classification as a religio prava.
		On (5), it may be suggested that Tacitus didn't expend considerable effort but rather had a servant find what could be found on the Christian sect (not necessarily on Jesus), which would have included the report on their classification as a religio prava.
		On (3), Tacitus is giving merely the briefest account of the origin of the name Christian and so cannot be expected to mention such Christian doctrines.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /tacitus.html (1531 words)

	Who Is Jesus Christ?
		He is God's only begotten son, yet He came from the throne of His Father to the womb of a woman.
		In Mathew 16:15, Jesus put it this way, 'But who do you say that I am?' One of His disciples, Simon Peter, replied: 'You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.' Now it's your turn.
		Death of Jesus Christ - Is it meaningful to you?
	www.allaboutjesuschrist.org /who-is-jesus-christ.htm (371 words)

	Did Jesus exist?
		Horus as the Lion (Jesus as the Lion)
		It was not until the third century that Jesus' cross of execution became a common symbol of the Christian faith.
		Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.
	www.nobeliefs.com /exist.htm (11981 words)

	Jesus Christ
		Some arguments state that the bible is not objective in its presentation of Jesus – in other words, it’s biased because it’s written by Christians.
		Yet, these historians of the bible are uniquely trustworthy, for they have been cross-examined like no other historians in history.
		At least 20 early pagan writers wrote about Jesus' existance including Tacitus, a great historian of Rome; Pliny the Younger, one of the leaders of the Roman Empire; and Celsus, the first great antagonist, who wrote a whole book attacking Christianity
	www.angelfire.com /ok/HisGlory/teacher.html (178 words)

	Who Killed Jesus? - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com
		The two men who were killed along with Jesus are identified in some translations as "thieves," but the word can also mean "insurgents," supporting the idea that crucifixion was a political weapon used to send a message to those still living: beware of revolution or riot, or Rome will do this to you, too.
		The writers of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John shaped their narratives several decades af-ter Jesus' death to attract converts and make their young religion—understood by many Christians to be a faction of Judaism—attractive to as broad an audience as possible.
		The climax comes when Caiaphas asks Jesus: "Are you the Messiah?" and Jesus says, "I am..." and alludes to himself as "the Son of Man." There is a gasp; the high priest rends his garments and declares Jesus a blasphemer.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4212782 (1138 words)

	Written Records of Jesus - Tacitus, Roman Historian
		Written Records of Jesus - Tacitus, Roman Historian
		Tacitus was a Roman historian who wrote 'Annals' in 115 CE.
		There were enough Christian believers at Rome by CE 64 to be made scapegoats by the Emperor Nero.
	www.request.org.uk /main/history/jesus/Jesus05.htm (188 words)

	Introducing Jesus
		The Resurrection of Jesus is either simply untrue or simply the greatest event in history.
		Here you will find evidence for who he is, examples of some of the things he said and did, questions (and answers, of course) that people ask about him and about Christianity in general.
		Ordinary people say how they came to know Jesus, what difference it makes to them and what advice they give to other people regarding Jesus.
	www.introducingjesus.org (390 words)

	Jesus Central — For people who want to learn more about Jesus - Jesus Central jesuscentral.com
		All around the world, an accelerating number of people are choosing to study the historical Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ
		The educational approach is to offer historically accurate material and to portray Jesus in a manner that is of most relevance to the audience.
		Upon studying material of the JesusCentral.com, one should at least have an accurate, basic understanding of Jesus' core message, Jesus' self-stated purpose, who Jesus claimed to be, why Jesus was controversial and executed, and what caused such a massive following of Jesus, significantly impacting Western Civilization.
	www.jesuscentral.com /index.php (293 words)

	Historian Tacitus Describes Jesus - Jesus Central jesuscentral.com Life-of-jesus-ancient
		Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman historian who lived circa 56-120 AD.
		He is believed to have been born in France or Gaul into a provincial aristocratic family.
		Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome..."
	www.jesuscentral.com /ji/life-of-jesus-ancient/jesus-tacitus.php (171 words)

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