Written by experts in the field, the essays in this volume examine the early Christian book from a wide range of disciplines: religion, art history, history, Near Eastern studies, and classics.
This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology.
The World of the First Christians: A Curious Kid's Guide to the Early Church answers these questions and more, with colorful illustrations, charts, graphs, maps, and other infographics that will keep kids' attention for hours and give them ...
Perhaps the worship of Jesus was not an alternative to worship of God but another way of worshiping God. The questions are challenging but readers are ably guided by James Dunn, one of the world's top New Testament scholars.
The First Christian Centuries: Perspectives on the Early Church
A Critique of Neusner and Smith on Definition and Mason and Boyarin on Categorization.” JAJ 2 (2011): 208–238. Schwartz, Seth. ... Shaw, Brent D. “Rural Markets in North Africa and the Political Economy of the Roman Empire.
For the past hundred years, much has been written about the early editions of Christian texts discovered in the region that was once Roman Egypt.
29 M. Albert, Culte de Castor et Pollux, 1883. See also S. Geppert, Castor und Pollux, 1996, pp. 4–35. 30 In an article published in 1978, H. J. de Jonge notes the semantic ambiguity of n toˆiv toˆu patr ́ov mou in Luke 2.
Paying the greatest attention to the 'inner' components of Christian life, the resulting story captures fully the major figures: Paul, the gospel writers, the early 'apologists', and the great figures of the 'patristic' age, including the ...
Specifically, author Craig A. Evans looks at how a chain of events from 3-7 CE--beginning with Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem and subsequent crucifixion and ending with the destruction of the temple—led to the separation between the ...