20.135, who served Claudius and advised him to side with the Samaritans in their dispute against the Jews (pp. Argive ancestor For having been seduced by Zeus, Io, a native from Argos, was severely punished by the god's jealous wife Hera, who pursued her all over the world. Both these chapters make it clear that God wants everyone to partake of repentance, but in this sentence, Clement only includes God's beloved. He certainly knew of the Great Fire. The phrase a type of men of a new and evil superstitio, in Shaws assessment, reads very much like Suetoniuss own commentary drawing upon what was known of Christians in his day, in the early second century. Danaus ruled Argos for many years and was leading a quiet life till one day a foreign ship came. . (MSG, 20:207.) Orosius interpretatio christiana rests on no evidence independent of Suetonius. ", "I find your blog most interesting and appreciate your ongoing effort to keep to the evidence for the issues discussed! My I quote, without being accused of irrelevant trolling, from A.N. Your voice is unique. Presuming this much to be true, one might then further speculate about what was happening to the women concerned. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Im also happy to see even Jim giving Neil credit where credit is due. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) It was a crime that both people and gods would punish. This great massacre was unbelievable, even for the bloody ancient Greek myths. (As usual, bolded font and formatting are my own.). ISBN 978-0-7885-0425-9. My books, and those I have published for others, consistently maintain 4-star and better ratings despite the occasional 1- and 2-star ratings from people angry about my kicking over sacred cows. It is worth noting that Tacitus Annals 15 derives from a single manuscript, found in the derives from a single manuscript found in a monastery at Monte Cassino in the 13 or 14th century, that also found its way into the hands of Poggio Bracciolini. . Finally a clever forger (Poggio?) The problems here are almost overwhelming. His brother, Aegyptus, had sent his fifty sons to find Danaus and try to take over his new kingdom. Only one of the girls, Hypermnestra, did not commit this horrible crime. In almost every history of the early Christian Church, the event is marked as a dramatic turning point in the relations between Christians and the imperial government. ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. As such refusals could provoke violent reactions from their pagan husbands (including sexual abuse), Clement metaphorically called these Christian women Dircae, the bull being a symbol of unchained debauchery. Finally, for those that do not know, copyright allows "fair use" of all written works. Indeed, the degree of certainty in the Neronian persecution stands in almost inverse proportion to the quality and quantity of the data. All his daughters had to obey their father, because disobeying to your parents was a great wrongdoing in the ancient world. Slingerland reaches a proper and salutary conclusion: the burden of proof rests with those who wish to identify Chrestus with Christ, not those who distinguish them (pp 169-217). Around the year 95 AD, a letter was written by the Church of Rome to the Church at Corinth that is attributed to Saint Clement. Where to eat? Wherefore let us give up vain and fruitless cares, and approach to the glorious and venerable rule of our holy calling. No specifically identifiable author can be fixed for these letters. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Cassius Dio(ca 155-235 C.E.) (Keeping it brief this time really? Wilsons TLS (11 December) review of J.D. In fact, the Gospel of John is likely written around the same time as this document. Nero was seen as a benefactor of the poor and common persons and a future restorer of a golden age. 57 (trans. In the Gospel of John there was a prophecy that Peter would meet an undesirable fate and it seemed appropriate that he should die by crucifixion as hadJesus. | Sitemap |. The two brothers had regular rivalries over their kingdoms and where trying one to get the other's land. In Romans 16, couples, single people, and women are key to missionary work; in 1Clement and The Shepherd of Hermas we see a great concern regarding the social order of women and the household. Dirce was tied to the horns of a bull and then dragged to death." Lykos marched against Sikyon, subdued it, slew Epopeus, and led Antiope away captive. Nero had reserved his own gardens for the spectacle. ", Nancy Fraser- June 2019 (personal email), "Many thanks for this post, and for the quality of your blog. Indeed, the Danaides were punished for this after their death with a horrible and eternal torment. How, then, Shaw asks, was this new information about the Christians circulating among the governing officials at the time? The Church of St. Clement is one of the most fascinating places in Rome. The myth of Danaides is the story of fifty women who commit a horrible wrongdoing: guided by their father, they all kill their husbands on their wedding night! ", "For an excellent example of generally high-quality scholarship by someone who isnt a biblical studies professor, see Neil Godfreys work posted on the website vridar.org. The historian composed his narrative accordingly and, as has been frequently noted, he did it with a consummate art and skill that wove together themes of impending disaster, a final conflagration, and a tyrannical emperor. Nonetheless, the Bible reports him as a "preacher of righteousness" (2 Pet. Chapter 6: Envy (Continued) This chapter just gives more examples of martyrdom and persecution and points out the basis of persecution is envy. 18:20-30). the pagan writer Tacitus testifies to these evernt in his Annales (15, 44) as does Clement, bishop of Rome, in his letter to the Corinthians (chapters 5-7). The Roman elites, meanwhile, came to remember Nero as a malicious villain. "When Alexandros [Alexander the Great] the son of Philippos led his forces against Thebes the gods sent them signs and portents presaging their imminent fate . Wilson) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to 3rd A.D.) : Deliberately to overlook and to ignore such a parallel with an earlier known tyrant whom Lactantius himself accepts persecuted Christians, and thereby to miss the opportunity to tie together the first and the last of the persecutors, is almost inexplicable unless he was unaware of the connection or had discounted it for some reason. For all we know from the available evidence Peter died in the 50s, in Jerusalem, peacefully in his sleep. The DANAIDS are the 50 daughters of Danaus 1 who married the sons of Aegyptus 1, and murdered their husbands (except one) on their wedding night. 67 In his De lAuthenticity des Histoires et des Annales de Tacite, Hochart points out that, whereas the Life of St. Martin and the Dialogues of Sulpicius were found in many libraries, there was only one manuscript of Sulpicius Severuss Chronicle, probably of the eleventh century, which is now in the Vatican. The key reference here isBarnes, T. D. 2010: Early Christian Hagiography and Roman History, Tubingen. Other references not currently quoted here: Euripides Bacchae 519, Euripides Heracles 27, Propertius 3.16.13. The people of Argos took this as a sign and chose Danaus as their king. Do not hesitate to ask the community! Let us set before our eyes the illustrious apostles. I also have a rough draft of what will be the Rebuilding the Foundations book. ", Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 7 (trans. Required fields are marked *. Dirke was originally the wife of King Lykos (Lycus) of Thebes who, as punishment for the mistreatment of her niece Antiope, was tied to a wild bull and torn limb from limb. 18:30]. Tacitus describes the Christians in the same way, as a plague or contagion, and likewise emanating from Judea. This is quite improbable. Tertullian was born the son of a Roman Centurion in Carthage around 150 AD. Do you even know who Danaids and Dircae are? My own take on how the myth later developed, to appear full-blown in the writings of Sulpicius Severus, sees it as a combination of both Roman and Christian thinking in regard to the Fire and the blame the Christians tendency. I dont always agree with them, but I respect their work. 6:3 Jealousy hath estranged wives from their husbands and changed the saying of our father Adam, This now is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. 5. Indeed, the statement is part of a longer list of legal restrictions introduced by Nero. On account of jealousy women, when they had been persecuted as Danaids and Dircae, and had suffered cruel and unholy insults, safely reached the goal in the race of faith and received a noble reward, feeble though they were in body. The few remnants of houses in the other seven were reduced to stripped and half-burned ruins. This cannot be true because of the many warnings of judgment for Christians (e.g., Gal. ", Earl Doherty, November 2013 (personal email), "Note that I do not use the term amateur pejoratively. The third is the special interest of the Roman Church in the death of the two chief apostles, Peter and Paul, at Rome. Its the prohibition against knowing, Interestingly, 80% of Israeli Christians say that the Israeli government is insincere in pursuing peace (against 72% of Israeli Muslims)., You can also remember Ladon guarding the garden of the Hesperides https://www.theoi.com/Titan/Hesperides.html, Hi Diana and everyone else. I know certain arguments in isolation do seem very persuasive, such as the forgery one. All references to "writings from the apostles' churches" or "early Christian writings" on this site can be read at EarlyChristianWritings.com or Christian Classic Ethereal Library, as well as other web sites. Thats the start. Christians and Jews by the Fourth Century. The third or fourth bishop of Rome has been proposed, but there are numerous pseudepigraphical texts attached to his name and no certain provenience or date can be established for the text. Therefore it is likely that Tacitus attests the persecution of the Chrestien Jews noted by Suetonius, given that most classical scholars do not identify Chrestus with Christ. Having no other option, he consented for the wedding and organized a low-profile wedding party. Therefore, unless one simply presumes, in a complete void of supporting data, that the words in the pseudo-Clement must have some relationship to the fire in 64 C.E., there is nothing in the text that would lead any reasonably critical reader to connect the two events. I think it expands, and contributes to, the effort in honouring Thomas that we with Lukasz originally had in mind with this volume. Through envy and jealousy, the greatest and most righteous pillars [of the Church] have been persecuted and put to death. And he brings into play the unnamed freedmen referred to by Josephus, Ant. 8:3). 5 (trans. The Danaids - or the Danaides; also called Belides after their grandfather - were the fifty daughters of Danaus, one of the two twin sons of king Belus of Egypt and the Naiad Anchinoe. Irving, TX 75062 I would also like to point out one serious flaw in Shaws argument, relating to his desire to keep the Tacitean passage as essentially authentic, but constituting a misinterpretation by Tacitus time about a Neronian event. I find the point 2 particularly biased and apologetical: impliciter, he is winking at those who say that the Romans coined the term Christian because they were historicists: the Christians were followers of a historical human leader. 20:28). For Aegyptus, these fifty marriages appeared as an easy route to acquire the properties of Danaus. DIRKE (Dirce) was the Naiad-nymph of the spring of Dirke near Thebes in Boiotia (central Greece). He offers the suggestion that Chrestus might be one of the freedmen advisers to the emperor Claudius, using as analogy the anti-semitic Helicon, counselor to Gaius Caligula. There is every good reason for historians to have grave doubts about the story of an attack on Christians by Nero that emerged decades after the fire itself.They should be sceptical to the point of dismissing the commonly accepted idea of Nero as a persecutor, indeed the first great persecutor of Christians, specifically in connection with the conflagration that raged through Rome in July of 64. It advocated a racially integrated German nation at the heart of a central European customs union, the basis of a united states of Europe. For example, when Tacitus says that there arose a distaste towards Nero for his executions because they were perceived to be a concession to the emperors bestiality and not a contribution to the utilitas publica of the state, he is surely echoing a dominant ideology not of the 60s but of his own age. The gods Athena and Hermes purified them at the command of Zeus. Danaus soon understood the plan of his brother and was not willing to surrender his beautiful daughters to his nasty nephews. Because the water was always leaking, they would forever try to fill the tub. Its an interesting hypothesis. Did the following really happen? (2015) Clarifying the Scope of Pre-Fifth-Century C.E. Her waters were sacred to the god Dionysos. The myth of Danaides is the story of fifty women who commit a horrible wrongdoing: guided by their father, they all kill their husbands on their wedding night! Her waters were sacred to the god Dionysos. Contents 1 Family 2 Mythology 3 In Roman culture 4 Notes 5 References Shaws article is valuable for casting such doubt on a supposedly key Christian martyr tradition, but his particular case is seriously flawed. At this point Tacitus introduces the episode about the Christians. However, Shaw stresses the importance of recognising the passage is the only source for the involvement of Christians with the fire and their persecution in its aftermath.. Christians were known by the label Christian. . Note what Arthur Drews said in The Roman Witneses; Tacitus in The Witnesses to the Historicity of Jesus:, Chicago, The Open Court Publishing Co. (c1912) , Finally, there is the complete silence of profane writers and the vagueness of the Christian writers on the matter; the latter only gradually come to make a definite statement of a general persecution of the Christians under Nero, whereas at first they make Nero put to death only Peter and Paul. 1) Acts 11:26 gives a historical kernel and is not anachronistic. What seems to make the idea so compelling and impossible to dismiss is that it is based on a high quality historical source of apparently unimpeachable fidelity, the, Not by any human resources, not by the benefactions of the emperor, and not by any placating of the gods did. . "We are struggling on the same arena, and the same conflict is assigned to both of us.". ", "Fantastic. Later sources such as the writing of Sulpicius Severus are useless for our enquiry because they all depend on Tacitus. DID TACITUS WRITE OF A NERONIAN PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS? This video claims that the Christians took blame for the fire themselves (whether they did or not). us with a most excellent example. The more I read your stuff (and I still do, of course), the more I realize how much we all owe you. Shaw accepts the high likelihood that rumours about who was responsible for the fire were rife. The paucity and weakness of the data, however, have not prevented acceptance of the historicity of this first persecution as an undisputed fact. The Greek text in 6.2 is not without its complications, but it is entirely possible that the reference to the Danaids, alluding to how the daughters of Danas were given as prizes to the winners of a race, may be an indication of how some Christian women endured public rape before their executions. suffered cruel and unholy insults as Danaids and Dircae, safely reached the goal in the race of faith, and received a noble reward, feeble though they were in body. Here is Shaws translation of the passage, beginning at the beginning: A disaster followed. Excavations revealed that the medieval Church, built in the 12th century, actually was built on top of a 4th century Church which was in turn built over a house church going back to the first century. The entirety of his focus in condemning Nero concentrates on the preaching of Peter and Paul at Rome and the effects of their ideas in the city. . 2:6-7). Tacitus does not believe the Christians were guilty, but at the same time he never tells us who he thinks wereculpable. "There is a river called Dirke (Dirce) [near Thebes] after the wife of Lykos (Lycus). You are doing essentially the same quality now (apart from the philology and languages) except mostly sticking to commenting on others work as informed comment/discussion. The originator of this name, Christus [Chrestus? 2:5). The entirety of his focus in condemning Nero concentrates on the preaching of Peter and Paul at Rome and the effects of their ideas in the city. "I still wonder at all the material you turn out for Vridar. A lot was cast among the sons of Aegyptus to decide which of the Danaids each should marry except for those daughters born to Memphis who were joined by their namesakes, the sons of Tyria. I use this newsletter to send Bible studies as much as once per week, sometimes less, but never more. never happened. Peter, through unrighteous envy, endured not one or two, but numerous labors and when he had at length suffered martyrdom, departed to the place of glory due to him. The spring called Dirke (Dirce), running parallel to the Ismenos (Ismenus) and the walls themselves, which had always previously had clear and pure water, was suddenly and unexpectedly filled with blood. Then the author of the letters of Seneca to Paul enlarged the legend in its primitive form, brought it into agreement with the ideas of this time, and gave it a political turn. We will focus on repentance and grace in chapters 7 and 8. 1.800.803.0118info@crossroadsinitiative.com. To get rid of the rumour, Nero found and provided the defendants, and he afflicted with the most refined punishments those persons whom, hated for their shameful acts, Christians were afflicted with punishments, a type of men of a new and evil, What seems to have happened under Claudius and then again under Nero is the temporary banishment of some Jewish sectarians from the city of Rome, but not, in any event, persons who would logically have been labelled at the time as a new and evil, At the time, and indeed up to the decades after 100 C.E., among Roman writers, including Tacitus, it was the Jews rather than the Christians whose beliefs and practices were being labelled a. 6:7-9). To these men who spent their lives in the practice of holiness, there is to be added a great multitude of the elect, who, having through envy endured many indignities and tortures, furnished us with a most excellent example. I like Hurtados works on Christology, but at the same time I have to be alert to the fact that he has conveniently found arguments that support his personal Christian beliefs so one does need to read his critics at the same time. Books and publications are covered with a range of perspectives with attempts at fair and accurate representation of others arguments and content (where there are occasional and inevitable missteps on that I notice Neil making corrections and apologies where warranted, which wins points with me). But if Tacitus was picking up on an initial development of that myth in the interval between Nero in 64 CE and himself (writing only a decade or so into the 2nd century), it is virtually impossible to believe that Christians themselves would not have picked up on this development (they would hardly have remained ignorant of it for so long) and embraced it as a prime example of the establishments persecution of their new faith. There now began a more destructive and savage fire than Rome had ever experienced At the time a rumour had been running about that while the city was burning Nero had mounted his household stage and, in likening the present evils to disasters experienced in distant antiquity, he had sung about the destruction of Troy Of Romes fourteen districts only four remained untouched. His treatment, although unnecessarily prolix, argues quite powerfully against the widespread conviction that Chrestus is Christ. "Neil, for what it is worth it is obvious to me that if you had earlier in life tracked into a graduate program at one of the worlds leading research universities you would be one of the worlds formidable ones. happen to be some of the most astute and well-read amateurs you can read on the internet on the subject of biblical historicity. Ancient history is obviously less verifiable than recent history, and open to speculative revisions of various sorts, including the use of some presumed legends and forgeries against others, according to taste. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 511 E John Carpenter Fwy Ste 500 When the sons found out who their mother was, they put Dirce to death by bidning her to an untamed bull; by the kindness of Liber [Dionysos], whose votary she was, on Mount Cithaeron, a spring was formed from her body, which was called Dirce. Hyginus' list[5] is partially corrupt and some of the names are nearly illegible. But the following passage speaks of Paul: Let us set before our eyes the illustrious apostles. Soon the sons of Aegyptus presented themselves to the palace and asked once more to marry the Danaides. A third list was provided by the English antiquarian, Henry Ellis which was derived from Hyginus. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) who had already confessed) a very large number were convicted, less on the charge of having set the fire than because of their hatred of humankind. Eusebius, Hist. [A] persecution of Christians by the emperor Nero in connection with the Great Fire of 64 seems improbable given the context of the relations between officials of the Roman state and Christians over the first century CE. Of course, we can conclude that we all do. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. Next sacrifices were made to the gods and the books of the Sybil were consulted, according to which supplications were made to Vulcan, Ceres, and Proserpina. Crossans Jesus and the Violence of Scripture (SPCK 2015), a passage re Nero, not because I support either of these writers in their views of HJ but because it rang a bell regarding the transmission of the (divine?) https://www.rebuildingthefoundations.org/faith-and-works-story.html. ], suffered (capital) punishment in the reign of Tiberius through the agency of the procurator Pontius Pilatus. How much further than that you can go has never been defined by law. . They were to marry the 50 sons of Danaus' twin brother Aegyptus, a mythical king of Egypt. Please carry on. ", Mary Booker, February 2020 (personal email), "Very good. At first those who confessed were taken away for punishment; subsequently others who were denounced by others were rounded up. Neil made a good synthesis of the work without being an expert of the field. The absence is doubly striking since it was precisely a fire at Nicomedia (two of them, in fact) that caused Galerius and Diocletian to turn on the Christians in the Great Persecution of 303 C.E. What is missing in the punishments described, however, is anything suggesting a Christian association. DIRKE (Dirce) was the Naiad-nymph of the spring of Dirke near Thebes in Boiotia (central Greece). The most interesting fact about these brothers is their progeny. The myth says that, when they died, they Danaides were forced to a torment for eternity. 2. Thus the precious blood of Christ that was shed for our salvation sets "the grace of repentance" before all of us. Dirke was originally the wife of King Lykos (Lycus) of Thebes who, as punishment for the mistreatment of her niece Antiope, was tied to a wild bull and torn limb from limb. Not available publicly on our website or anywhere else exclusively for our confirmed subscribers! In Jewish apocalyptic mythology Nero was depicted as a bestial figure, no doubt because the war that ended with the destruction of the Temple was commenced under his reign. Such modest modernizings occur outside of this particular passage, however, and so are typical of the writer. The historians qualities of veracity and accuracy, within the tolerable limits of the sources available to him, are not generally open to serious question. This is ingenious but highly speculative, as Slingerland himself concedes. Tom Berenger, It seems to me that being psycho-analysed is essentially a process where one is forced back into infantilism and then rescued from it by crystallising what one learns into a sort of intellectual primitivism-one is forced back into myth, and folk lore and everything that belongs to the savage or undeveloped stages of society. Neros new building code changes after the fire]. 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