'Jesus didn't exist?' But Roman non-believer Thallus reported
'The Darkness' At His Crucifixion.
"Circa AD 52, Thallus wrote a history of the Eastern Mediterranean
world from the Trojan War to his own time. This work itself has been lost
and only fragments of it exist in the citations of others. One such scholar
who knew and spoke of it was Julius Africanus, who wrote about AD 221. In speaking of Jesus’ crucifixion and the darkness that covered the land
during this event, Africanus found a reference in the writings of Thallus
that dealt with this cosmic report. Africanus asserts: 'On the whole world #
there pressed a most fearful darkness; and the
rocks were rent by an earthquake, and many places in Judea and other
districts were thrown down. This darkness Thallus, in the third book of his History, calls, as appears to me without reason, an eclipse of the sun.'
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