Romans, Carthaginians, Celts, Scythians and others: Tertullian combats charges of human sacrifice and incest against Jesus adherents (early third century CE)

Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland · Sep 15, 2026

Ancient author: Tertullian, Apology 7-9 (link); Tertullian, To the Peoples / Ad Nationes 1.7-8, 11, 15-16 (link; link to Latin). Comments: As this series on the redirection of ethnographic characterizations of foreign peoples at internal groups within society shows, Tertullian is in a significant line of Jesus followers who responded quite directly to circulating rumours that […]