The Death of Jesus
44 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, 45 for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. 46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.”[a] When he had said this, he breathed his last.
(Luke 23:44-46)
Thallus.
In the Book, by Norman L. Geisler in his Baker Encyclopedia
of Christian Apologetics, on page. 382, it reads,
Thallus wrote about A.D. 52. None of his works are extant, though a few fragmented citations are preserved by other writers. One such writer is Julius Africanus in about 221, who quotes thallus in a discussion of the darkness which followed the crucifixion of Christ:
On the whole world their pressed a most fearful darkness; and the rocks were rent by an earthquake, and many places in Judea and other districts were thrown down. This darkness Thallus, in the third book of hid History calls, as appears to me without reason, an eclipse of the sun. [ Extant Writings , 18 in the Ante-Nicene Fathers.
Africanus identifies the darkness which Thallus explained as a solar eclipse with the darkness at the crucifixion described in Luke.23:44-45
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