“On August 19, 14 CE at 3:00 PM, Augustus Caesar dies, 35 days from his 76th birthday, at Nola in Campania. Tiberius becomes emperor.
Tiberius Claudius Nero was born in 42 B.C.E., the son of Tiberius Nero, Julius Caesar’s naval commander and hero of the Alexandrian War, and his wife Livia. Hounded and pursued by Octavian/Augustus and the triumvirs, Nero was constantly "on the run" as a result of his Republican convictions. As a result, the first 4 years of Tiberius life was one of great hardships. At the age of 4, Octavian forced his parents to divorce and married Livia. The heirs to Augustus’ throne were his grandsons, Gaius and Lucius, the children of his daughter Julia and Marcus Agrippa. When Agrippa died in 12 B.C.E., Augustus forced his stepson to divorce his beloved and pregnant wife Vipsania to marry his widowed daughter Julia. By 4 CE, both Gaius and Lucius had died and Augustus adopted Tiberius.
26 CE
Much could be written about the peculiar personality of Tiberius Caesar. New Testament History, however, would be most impacted by the rise to power, under Tiberius, of one of the most machiavellian schemers in history, Lucius Aelius Sejanus, prefect of the Praetorian Guard. Early in the year, the brooding Tiberius secluded himself in the Villa of Jupiter in the Island of Capreae (Capris), never again to set foot on the mainland. Sejanus himself, certainly had much to do with the Emperor’s seclusion, feeding his suspicions and paranoia over life in Rome. Tiberius continued to govern from Capris but for all practical purposes the power hungry Sejanus was running the empire. All access and correspondence to the emperor went through Sejanus who was the perfect Roman Svengali to Tiberius’ Trilby. Sejanus’ appointments, probably rubber-stamped by Tiberius, were drawn from his greedy and corrupt associates. One of these appointments was the 5th prefect of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea, Pontius Pilatus.
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The cited information was published in http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=crayhton&id=I39126Tiberius Claudius Nero was born in 42 B.C.E., the son of Tiberius Nero, Julius Caesar’s naval commander and hero of the Alexandrian War, and his wife Livia. Hounded and pursued by Octavian/Augustus and the triumvirs, Nero was constantly "on the run" as a result of his Republican convictions. As a result, the first 4 years of Tiberius life was one of great hardships. At the age of 4, Octavian forced his parents to divorce and married Livia. The heirs to Augustus’ throne were his grandsons, Gaius and Lucius, the children of his daughter Julia and Marcus Agrippa. When Agrippa died in 12 B.C.E., Augustus forced his stepson to divorce his beloved and pregnant wife Vipsania to marry his widowed daughter Julia. By 4 CE, both Gaius and Lucius had died and Augustus adopted Tiberius.
26 CE
Much could be written about the peculiar personality of Tiberius Caesar. New Testament History, however, would be most impacted by the rise to power, under Tiberius, of one of the most machiavellian schemers in history, Lucius Aelius Sejanus, prefect of the Praetorian Guard. Early in the year, the brooding Tiberius secluded himself in the Villa of Jupiter in the Island of Capreae (Capris), never again to set foot on the mainland. Sejanus himself, certainly had much to do with the Emperor’s seclusion, feeding his suspicions and paranoia over life in Rome. Tiberius continued to govern from Capris but for all practical purposes the power hungry Sejanus was running the empire. All access and correspondence to the emperor went through Sejanus who was the perfect Roman Svengali to Tiberius’ Trilby. Sejanus’ appointments, probably rubber-stamped by Tiberius, were drawn from his greedy and corrupt associates. One of these appointments was the 5th prefect of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea, Pontius Pilatus.
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