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Tacticus is religious, sure, but for the Roman state religion. He is primarily a military and political writer; his contemporaneous account of Jesus’ followers
by freeone3000 4y ago
Tacticus is religious, sure, but for the Roman state religion. He is primarily a military and political writer; his contemporaneous account of Jesus’ followers is in the context of the First Jewish-Roman War.
- gumby 4y agoHe's a secondary source since he was born a couple of decades after pilate left office and after tiberius was dead. Going back to the original point of this thread (and of the posted article): the efficacy of the biography is orthogonal to whether the subject existed or not.