the most prominent non-Christian Jewish writers of the first century, mentioned Emperor Claudius’s expulsion of all Jews from Rome in ca. A.D. 49–50. Only Suetonius and Luke mention the event, and each give it only one line in passing.21 A contemporary example is found in Ronald Reagan’s autobiography, in which he comments on his first marriage. Readers desiring to learn about this relationship will be disappointed, since Reagan offers a total of two sentences: “The same year I made the Knute Rockne
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