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Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo vadis 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? Back to list!

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