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According to the early Christian scholar Julius Africanus, Thallus apparently refers, in the third book of his histories, to the darkness at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and explained it away as a solar eclipse; there is a range of interpretations on the matter. [5] [6]
Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240; Ancient Greek: Σέξτος Ἰούλιος ὁ Ἀφρικανός or ὁ Λίβυς) was a Christian traveler and historian of the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries.
In his Chronicle of Theophanes the fifth-century chronicler George Syncellus quotes the History of the World of Sextus Julius Africanus as stating that a world eclipse and an earthquake in Judea had been reported by the Greek 1st century historian Thallus in his Histories.
Thallus, of whom very little is known, and none of whose writings survive, wrote a history allegedly around the middle to late first century CE, to which Eusebius referred. Julius Africanus, writing c. 221 CE, links a reference in the third book of the History to the period of darkness described in the crucifixion accounts in three of the Gospels.
Sextus Julius Africanus; Memnon of Heraclea; Nicias of Nicaea; Nicolaus of Damascus; Pamphile of Epidaurus; Philo of Byblos; Plutarch; Polyaenus; Polybius; Posidonius; Gaius Asinius Quadratus; Strabo; Thallus (historian) Theophanes of Mytilene
Julius Africanus writes "Phlegon records that, in the time of Tiberius Cæsar, at full moon, there was a full eclipse of the sun from the sixth hour to the ninth..." [4] Eusebius, in book 2 of Chronicle (Chronicon, quoted by Jerome), refers to Phlegon's 13th book for confirmation of an eclipse and earthquakes in Bythinia and Nicaea. [5]
There seems to be some doubt about what Thallus wrote (Africanus doesn't quote Thallus) and there is doubt about when Thallus wrote his history. Van Voorst says the date is somewhat uncertain and Thallus may be the earliest to write about the crufixion. The article glosses over these doubts. E4mmacro 07:34, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Thallus (early 2nd c. CE), Roman history; Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56–120), early Roman Empire; Plutarch (c. 45 – 125), Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans; Criton of Heraclea (fl. 100), history of the Getae and the Dacian Wars; Suetonius (c. 69 – post-122), Roman emperors up to the Flavian dynasty; Appian (c. 95 – c. 165 ...