Beyond the biography of jesus christ

These include: Lives of the First Twelve Caesars, by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, a Roman court official and chief secretary to Emperor Hadrian, who wrote around A.D. 120, Letters of Pliny the Younger, a Roman governing official in north-central Turkey, who wrote around A.D.

120 and Annals, by the Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote around A.D. 115. In addition, the famous first-century Jewish historian Josephus wrote about Jesus and a number of other figures mentioned in the Gospels.

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (commonly known as Suetonius), writing around A.D.

120, records Emperor Claudius, who reigned from A.D. 41 to 54, “banished the Jews from Rome, who were continually making disturbances, Chrestus [Christ] being their leader” (Lives of the First Twelve Caesars: Life of Claudius).

At this point in history the Romans didn’t see any difference between Jews and Christians, since bot