HeyJaredEthnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
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Romans, Carthaginians, Celts, Scythians and others: Tertullian combats charges of human sacrifice and incest against Jesus adherents (early third century CE) (opens the original)
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Ancient author: Tertullian, Apology 7-9 (link); Tertullian, To the Peoples / Ad Nationes 1.7-8, 11, 15-16 (link; link to Latin). Comments: As this series on the redirection of ethnographic characterizations of foreign peoples at internal groups within society shows, Tertullian is in a significant line of Jesus followers who responded quite directly to circulating rumours that […]
Greeks, Persians, and Indians: Theophilos of Antioch combats charges of eating human flesh and incest against Jesus adherents (late second century CE) (opens the original)
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Ancient author: Theophilos of Antioch (180s CE), To Autolykos (link; link to Greek text with Grant’s translation) Comments: According to Eusebios, Theophilos of Antioch was the overseer of the assembly of Jesus adherents at Antioch in Syria, and the reference to the death of Marcus Aurelius in the third book (3.27-28) to Autolykos means he wrote this […]
Egyptians, Taurians, and Greeks: Athenagoras of Athens combats charges of eating human flesh and incest against Jesus adherents (ca. 176-180 CE) (opens the original)
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Ancient authors: Athenagoras of Athens (175-178 CE), Embassy for the Christians, with some omissions (link; link to Greek); Anonymous authors, Letter of the Assemblies of Vienne and Lugdunum to the Assemblies of Asia and Phrygia, as cited by Eusebios, Ecclesiatical History 1.14-15 (link). Comments: Among the real or imaginative judicial petitions to Roman authorities that have come […]
Romans, Egyptians, Judeans, and others: Justin of Flavia Neapolis combats charges of eating human flesh and incest against Jesus adherents (mid-second century CE) (opens the original)
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Ancient author: Justin of Flavia Neapolis in Palestine, aka Justin Martyr (ca. 153 CE), First Apology 1-7, 23-27, 29-30; Second Apology 12 (link; link to Greek); Dialogue with Trypho 10, 17, and 108 (link; link to Greek). Comments: Justin of Flavia Neapolis (in Palestine) supplies us with the earliest (ca. 153 CE) complete legal petition addressed to […]
Romans and Greeks: Livy on human sacrifice and other crimes by Bacchic devotees in Italy (late first century BCE) (opens the original)
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Ancient author: Livy (ca. 9 BCE), Roman History 38.16-27 (link; link to Latin); ILLRP 511 = CIL I² 581 (October 186 BCE). Comments: Livy’s story about worshippers of Dionysos Bacchos set around 186 BCE (but written around 9 BCE) can be viewed, in large part, as a glimpse into Roman elite assumptions about foreign threats from […]
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