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• Author/Creator:Williams, Margaret, 1947- author.
  
• Title:Early classical authors on Jesus / Margaret H. Williams, [University of Edinburgh, UK].
  
• ISBN:9780567683151
  056768315X
  9780567683168
  9780567683199
  
• Publication:London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2023.
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2023
  
• Physical Description:xvi, 227 pages ; 25 cm.
  

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• Summary:"Margaret Williams examines how classical writers saw and portrayed Jesus. The volume shows how each of the early classical writers who mentions him (the historian Tacitus; the biographer Suetonius; the epistolographer Pliny, the satirist Lucian and the philosopher Celsus) takes a different view of Jesus and presents him in a different way." --
  
• Other formats:Online version : Williams, Margaret, 1947- Early classical authors on Jesus London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2023
  
• Format:Book
• Series:The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries ; 7
  Reception of Jesus in the first three centuries ; 7.
  
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
  
• Contents:1. Introduction : another book on Jesus? -- 2. Pliny and Christus (I) -- setting the scene -- 3. Pliny and Christus (II) : investigating the cult of Christ -- 4. Tacitus's testimony for 'Jesus' : authentic oe interpolated? -- 5. Tacitus on Christus : a master rhetorician at work -- 6. Suetonius and Christus : the third classical writer to refer to Jesus -- 7. Lucian of Samosaata : a satiriical take on Jesus -- 8. Celsus : the First serious pagan critic of Jesus -- 9. Celsus's trupartite assault on Jesus -- 10. Overview and conclusion -- Appendices : Appendix 1 : Inscriptions relating to Pliny, Tacitus and Suetonius ; Appendix 2 : Suetonius and the arrangement of Material Per Species (by category) ; Appendix 3 : Suetonius's skill in source-evaluation ; Appendix 4 : Dhretus, the unknown (nd unknowable?) Claudian agitator -- Bibliography -- Index.
  
• Subjects:Jesus Christ.
  Jesus Christ.
  Classical literature--History and criticism.
  Classical literature.