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The Roman historian Suetonius (c. AD 69 – c. AD 122) mentions early Christians and may refer to Jesus Christ in his work Lives of the Twelve Caesars. [1] [2] [3] One passage in the biography of the Emperor Claudius Divus Claudius 25, refers to agitations in the Roman Jewish community and the expulsion of Jews from Rome by Claudius during his ...
Tacitus on Jesus. The Fire of Rome, by Karl von Piloty, 1861. According to Tacitus, Nero targeted Christians as those responsible for the fire. The Roman historian and senator Tacitus referred to Jesus, his execution by Pontius Pilate, and the existence of early Christians in Rome in his final work, Annals (written c. AD 116), book 15, chapter 44.
Michael Weiße, translated by Catherine Winkworth. Based on. Psalm 145. Meter. 7.7.7.7.4. Melody. "Victimae pashali laudes", "Christ Ist Erstanden", "Wurtemburg" by Johann Rosenmüller. " Christ the Lord Is Risen Again! " ( German: " Christus ist erstanden Von der Marter alle ") is a German Christian hymn published by Michael Weiße in 1531 ...
Veiled Christ. Veiled Christ ( Italian: Cristo velato) is a carved marble sculpture completed in 1753 by the Neapolitan artist Giuseppe Sanmartino. It is formed from a single block of white marble, and was commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro, a prince of Sansevero, as the centerpiece of the Cappella Sansevero, in Naples, Italy.
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (original title: O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo, 1991) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. It is a fictional re-telling of Jesus Christ 's life, depicting him as a flawed, humanised character with passions and doubts. The novel proved controversial, [1] especially to representatives of the ...
t. e. Serapis or Sarapis is a Graeco-Egyptian god. A syncretic deity derived from the worship of the Egyptian Osiris and Apis, [1] Serapis was extensively popularized in the third century BC on the orders of Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, [2] as a means to unify the Greek and Egyptian subjects of the Ptolemaic Kingdom .
Christus, der ist mein Leben. , BWV 95. Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Christus, der ist mein Leben (Christ, he is my life), [1] BWV 95 in Leipzig for the 16th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 12 September 1723.
Alma mater. University of Uppsala. Gustaf Emanuel Hildebrand Aulén (15 May 1879 – 16 December 1977) was the Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden, a Lutheran theologian, and the author of Christus Victor, a work which still exerts considerable influence on contemporary theological thinking on the atonement. [1] [2]