Peter Kirby wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 2:07 pm Is it possible that the missing sections of the Annals contained some discussion of Pilate?
I'm not thinking of anything crazy. Maybe just a story about Pilate's removal from office.
Peter Kirby wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 2:07 pm Is it possible that the missing sections of the Annals contained some discussion of Pilate?
I'm not thinking of anything crazy. Maybe just a story about Pilate's removal from office.
Apparently the missing sections do include most if not all of the time of TiberiusPeter Kirby wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 2:07 pm Is it possible that the missing sections of the Annals contained some discussion of Pilate?
Ben C. Smith confirmed this connection in Codex Bezae.Irish1975 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 6:02 pm There is a good discussion of the Testimonium Taciteum in a recent publication by 3 classical scholars:
The Emperor Nero: A Guide to the Ancient Sources (Princeton UP, 2016), by Anthony Barrett, Elaine Fantham, & John Yardley (pp. 161-170).
About Tacitus’ incorrect identification of Pilate as Procurator, rather than Prefect, they find an interesting connection in the Vetus Latina text of the NT:
In these pre-Jerome Latin versions of the NT, at Luke 3:1, where in the Greek text Pontius Pilate’s office is described by the neutral Greek word hegemon, the Vetus Latina translates the term with the phrase procurante Pontio Pilato (“when Pontius Pilate was acting as procurator”). Thus, the notion that he held the office of procurator was part of the Latin Christian tradition.
What is the question here? Kindly add a few more words.
Latin of Tacitus |
English gloss (Google Translate) |
---|---|
ergo | therefore |
abolendo | to get rid of |
rumori | the report |
Nero | Nero |
subdidit | subdued |
r eos | r some (persons) |
et | and |
quaesitissimis | most elaborate |
poenis | penalties |
adfecit, | inflicted |
quos | which |
per | by (their) |
flagitia | atrocities |
invisos | disliked |
vulgus | common people |
[Chrestiano] | ["chrestians"] |
appellabat. | they were called |
auctor | author |
nominis | name |
eius | his |
[Christus | [Christus |
Tibero | Tiberius |
imperitante | during his reign |
per | by |
procuratorem | his procurator |
Pontium | Pontius |
Pilatum] | Pilate] |
supplicio | punishment |
adfectus | severe |
erat; | was; |
repressaque | checked for |
in | in |
praesens | present |
exitiablilis | fatal |
superstitio | superstition |
rursum | again |
erumpebat, | it broke |
non | non |
modo | only |
per | by |
[Iudaeam], | [Judea] |
originem | origin |
eius | his |
mali, | bad |
sed | but |
per | by |
urbem | city |
etiam, | also |
quo | where |
cuncta | everything |
undique | everywhere |
atrocia | atrocious |
aut | or |
pudenda | shameful |
confluunt | flock to |
celebranturque. | become popular. |
Not really,