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Christians and Romans

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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Is Pliny the Younger Persecuted?

There are two Pliny's in the ancient world who are famous, Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger. The Elder was a scientist who wrote books on natural history that we still have really an important author. The Younger was an official in the empire who was a governor of what is now kind of part of Western Turkey. He describes a situation that he was confronting in his province that there were people who had been accused of being Christians.

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