Early Christianity Archive
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1,700 year-old Roman cemetery discovered under another car park in Leicester
Posted on May 5, 2013 | No CommentsUniversity of Leicester Archaeological Services, the same group that discovered King Richard III under a car park in Leicester, has found a Roman cemetery in another car park in the same city. -
The Roman Empire: the Defender of Early First Century Christianity
Posted on April 2, 2013 | No CommentsContrary to expectations, the Roman Empire emerges from this examination as the protector (not persecutor) of early Christianity. Scripture from this time period reveals a peaceful relationship between the new faith and Roman authorities. -
A Humorous Jesus? Orality, Structure and Characterisation in Luke 14:15-24, and Beyond
Posted on March 31, 2013 | No CommentsWas Jesus a friendly and benevolent teacher with a sense of humour? -
To gather the fragments: The social significance of food and drink in early Christian ritual meals
Posted on March 19, 2013 | No CommentsThe history of the eucharistic meals of early Christianity has been seen largely in terms of certain formal elements derived from one or other model of practice attributed to Jesus and the early Church. -
The significance of leadership and organisation in the spread of Christianity
Posted on March 3, 2013 | No CommentsEarly Christianity, it is now believed by many scholars, wasa product of its time, a result rather than a cause of historical change -
Did Peter Go to Rome in AD 42?
Posted on February 11, 2013 | No CommentsDirect evidence for Peter's movements after the death of Stephen are scanty: we find him at Samaria, and (initiating the first Gentile mission) at Caesarea and at other places in Palestine. During Agrippa's reign (41-44) he escaped from Jerusalem and fled Agrippa's territory. -
Social complexity and religion at Rome in the second and first centuries BCE
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThis thesis studies the religious system of the city of Rome and its immediate hinterland from the end of the Second Punic War to the emergence of autocratic rule shortly before the turn of the millennium. -
From periphery to centre: pagan continuity and revival in Britain and Rome during the late fourth century AD
Posted on February 4, 2013 | No CommentsThe term 'cult acts' has also been posited as a mare apt description of Roman religious practice, and this certainly does account for the panoply of practices of a religious nature that existed in the Roman world; differences in culture, class, geography and ancestry led individuals to seek religious affiliatians unique to themselves -
Oldest known copy of the Letters of St. Paul now available as an App
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsThe University of Michigan Library -
Speculations of the Death of Roman Theatre
Posted on January 30, 2013 | No CommentsThese mimes were centered around themes of murder and adultery: the amount of indecency was incredible. In a warped sense of Realism, emperors could command a real sex act to take place on stage.
