Historicity of Jesus - 2

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Chapter 2 examines inscriptional dedications by various Asian cities to the imperial temple of Ephesus (89-91 CE). <b>These inscriptions show the temple to have been dedicated not to a single emperor, as some scholars suggested, but to the Sebastoi, the Flavian family (pp. 35-36), sometime in 89 or 90 CE during the reign of Domitian (pp. 45-49). </b>They also demonstrate the interplay of cult and politics in regard to a city’s relations with both Rome and other cities in the province of Asia (pp. 37-41; cf. pp. 158-60).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->