“The Romans may not have understood the Jewish religion, with its strange observances and its overwhelming obsession with ritual purity – “The Jews regard as profane all that we hold sacred,” Tacitus wrote, “while they permit all that we abhor” – but they nevertheless tolerated it.”

“The Romans may not have understood the Jewish religion, with its strange observances and its overwhelming obsession with ritual purity – “The Jews regard as profane all that we hold sacred,” Tacitus wrote, “while they permit all that we abhor” – but they nevertheless tolerated it.”

— Reza Aslan