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Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo
vadis (translated by Bence)
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Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo
vadis (translated by Bence)
Henryk Sienkiewicz
describes the persecution of Christians at the time of Nero in his book
"Quo Vadis", for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize.
I don’t want to comment
on the literary value of the work, but rather go into the historical
background and examine the question of whether there was anything like
Christianity at that time.
After the destruction of Jerusalem
by Titus in 79 AD, many Palestinian Jews fled to various parts of the
then-known world, from Spain to India, from Central Europe to Ethiopia. They
were looking for a new home and many of them settled in Greece. And it was
precisely Greece with its cultural breeding ground that provided the basis
for a new religion.
Letters to the
Corinthians, the Galatians, the Ephesians, the Philippians, the Colossians,
the Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, or Philemon seem to me to be rather Greek.
And it was the time after the beginning of the great diaspora of the Jewish
people and the settlement of many of these refugees in Greece, where the New
Testament was written and thus Christianity was born.
Those, persecuted by
Nero's officials in 63, were certainly not what we call Christians or early
Christians. They were rather simply Jews who had made themselves unpopular
with the Romans by their behaviour of not wanting to participate in Roman
life, as the Romans expected them to do, and not worshiping the Roman emperor
as a god.
When will this lie
finally be rectified?
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Sunday, 20 January 2019
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