Chrestiani, Christiani, Χριστιανοί:

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" Chrestiani, Christiani, Χριστιανοί: "
John Granger Cook

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1085531
Doc. No	:	LA129160
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12341410‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	John Granger Cook
Title & Author	:	Chrestiani, Christiani, Χριστιανοί: [Article] : a Second Century Anachronism?\ John Granger Cook
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Vigiliae Christianae
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	74/3
Page No	:	237–264
Abstract	:	Brent D. Shaw has questioned the historicity of the Neronian persecution based on two arguments from silence: Tacitus’s use of the term “Christians” is an anachronism; and Suetonius knows of no connection between the fire in Rome and Nero’s police actions against the Christians. Both of these untestable arguments from silence are inherently weak logically. One can make a good case for the claim that Chrestianus, Christianus, and Χριστιανός are not creations of the second century and that Roman officials were probably aware of the Chrestiani in the 60s. Tacitus’s and Suetonius’s accounts of the persecution are fundamentally reliable. Brent D. Shaw has questioned the historicity of the Neronian persecution based on two arguments from silence: Tacitus’s use of the term “Christians” is an anachronism; and Suetonius knows of no connection between the fire in Rome and Nero’s police actions against the Christians. Both of these untestable arguments from silence are inherently weak logically. One can make a good case for the claim that Chrestianus, Christianus, and Χριστιανός are not creations of the second century and that Roman officials were probably aware of the Chrestiani in the 60s. Tacitus’s and Suetonius’s accounts of the persecution are fundamentally reliable.
Descriptor	:	Chrestiani
Descriptor	:	Christiani
Descriptor	:	Neronian persecution
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700720-12341410‬