Foundations of Faith
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FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH IN JESUS<br />
M. M. NINAN<br />
Histories,. Annals, his final work, comprised 16 books originally, but a large portion <strong>of</strong> it was<br />
lost. It begins at the death <strong>of</strong> Augustus Caesar, and runs from the ascension <strong>of</strong> Tiberius up to<br />
Nero. The Annals include a notable passage which begins with Nero 'fiddling' while Rome<br />
burned (15:39), and then one <strong>of</strong> the earliest historical records <strong>of</strong> Christians (15:44), scape goated<br />
by Nero for the catastrophic fire.<br />
Germany is an ethnographic account <strong>of</strong> the ancient Germans.<br />
Agricola and Germania (in De origine et situ Germanorum is a biography <strong>of</strong> his father-in-law,<br />
Gnaeus Julius Agricola, who governed Britain, with interesting bits <strong>of</strong> information on first<br />
century England<br />
Oratory is a short discourse on rhetoric.<br />
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The front page <strong>of</strong> Justus Lipsius's 1598 edition <strong>of</strong> the complete works <strong>of</strong> Tacitus, bearing the stamps <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Bibliotheca Comunale in Empoli, Italy.<br />
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