Common Barrier in Objection #8
 (7 of 8)
Extra-Biblical Secular Sources
   Writer   Date   Subject
Ø Cornellius   112   Death of Jesus at the hands of Pilate
Tacitus
Ø Lucian   2nd cent.   The new cult of Christianity
Ø Flavius    66   Life/Death of Jesus
   Josephus
Ø Suetonius   120   Christ-The reason for Jews expulsion
       from Rome
Ø Pliny    112   Christians bound not to sin - Jesus
Ø Thallus   52   Histories-Darkness at Christ’s death
       (eclipse)
Ø Philegon   1st cent.   Darkness=Eclipse
Ø Mara Bar-   73   Calamities brought by deaths. Socrates,
    Serapion      Pythagorus, and Jesus