Mark Allan Powell observes that there were only three significant Roman historians worthy of note in the first century.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Mark Allan Powell Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Secondary
- Reference
Mark Allan Powell, Jesus as a figure in history : How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998), 32
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- Westminster John Knox Press
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- Reading Public
- Transcription
The three most important Roman historians for the first-century period are Tacitus, Suetonius, and Josephus. All three mention Jesus, as do a couple of other Roman writers. Only Josephus, however, has much to say about him. In general, the Romans were much more interested in Christianity than in Jesus himself.
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