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Roman Views of Jews and Christians:

A collection of primary sources

• Tacitus' history and "ethnography" of the Jewish people from his Histories
• Suetonius' report of a disturbance among the Jews in Rome caused by a certain "Chrestus"
• Tacitus' report in the Annals of a disturbance in Judea (same as p. 276 of our class text)
• A collection of ancient commentary on the Jews (Courtesy of David Silverman)
• The passage in Tacitus' Annals discussing Nero's treatment of Christians after the fire in Rome in 64 CE (same as p. 365 of our class text)
• The correspondance between Pliny the Younger and the Emperor Trajan concerning Christians in Pliny's province.

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