for counsel on dealing with the early Christian community. The letter details an account of how Pliny conducted trials of suspected Christians who appeared...

 113), better known as Pliny the Younger (/ˈplɪni/), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and...

The Epistulae ([ɛˈpɪs.t̪ʊ.ɫ̪ae̯], "letters") are a series of personal missives by Pliny the Younger directed to his friends and associates. These Latin...

Jesus Sources for the historicity of Jesus Josephus on Jesus Pliny the Younger on Christians Suetonius on Christians Mara bar Serapion on Jesus P. E. Easterling...

inasmuch as he would not have foreknown the future. Against the Galileans Celsus Pliny the Younger on Christians The True Word Digeser 1998, p. 130: "Constantine...

about 177. The passage shows the clear contempt of Suetonius for Christians - the same contempt expressed by Tacitus and Pliny the Younger in their writings...

(98-117) and Pliny the Younger".: 314  Trajan's correspondence with Pliny does indeed show that Christians were being executed for being Christian before AD...

sources on early Christianity, see also Pliny the Younger on Christians, Suetonius on Christians, and Tacitus on Christ. See Peter Brown in G. W. Bowersock...

occurrences of the term in non-Christian literature include Josephus, referring to "the tribe of Christians, so named from him;" Pliny the Younger in correspondence...

in 3:15–16 as a response to Pliny executing Christians for the obstinate manner in which they professed to be Christians. Generally, this theory is rejected...