Sunday, January 24, 2016

Veale on Tacitus on the Judeans

SARAH VEALE: TACITUS IN CALGARY.
... I am happy to announce that I will be presenting a paper at this year’s Religion & History Graduate Student Conference which is held by the Department of Classics & Religion at the University of Calgary. The conference takes place on April 14th and 15th.

My paper focuses on Tacitus’ Histories, specifically book five, and the anti-Judean content in his discussion of the ritual of Sukkot.
The abstract follows.