generate questions: The earliest occurrences of the term in non-Christian literature include Josephus, referring to "the tribe of Christians, so named from him;" Pliny the Younger in correspondence with Trajan; and Tacitus, writing near the end of the 1st century. In the Annals he relates that "by vulgar appellation [they were] commonly called Christians" and identifies Christians as Nero's scapegoats for the Great Fire of Rome.
What is one of the first mentions of the term Christian in a non-religious work, referring to a tribe of Christians? {sep_token} Which non-religious piece of literature had the term Christian in it towards the end of the first century? {sep_token} Christians were said to be the scapegoat of who?