A carta de Mara bar Serapião
Um autor sírio não cristão refere a execução de um «rei sábio» judeu como facto conhecido, e liga-a à queda do reino.
ContestadoAutor antigo1st–3rd century AD
A Stoic writing from prison to his son lists peoples who killed their wise men and were punished for it: the Athenians who killed Socrates, the Samians who burned Pythagoras, and the Jews who executed "their wise king", after which their kingdom was taken away.
What advantage did the Jews gain from executing their wise king? It was just after that their kingdom was abolished.
- Encontrado
- Transmitted in a single manuscript acquired by the British Museum, 1843
- Conservado em
- British Library, London
- Língua
- Syriac
- Como chegou até nós
- Nunca enterrado — copiado à mão, geração após geração, até à imprensa.
O que mostra
The date is uncertain across two centuries, and the letter never names Jesus. The identification is likely but not certain, and the writer is not a Christian.
Como os historiadores o usam
Discussed in the standard surveys of non-Christian references, with the dating problem noted.
Na Escritura
Ligado a
Fontes
- Van Voorst, Jesus Outside the New Testament (2000)
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