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In the November/December 2012 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Dead Sea Scroll and early Christianity scholar Geza Vermes explored the origin of Christianity by examining the characteristics of the Jewish Jesus movement to see how it developed into a distinctly gentile religion. In the New Testament, Jesus only preaches to a Jewish audience.
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The Antonine emperors felt, as Romans, the Christians ought to be more socially conscious, committed to the state and less secretive (Meditations 1:6; 3:16; 7:68; 8:48,51). The irony came when his son, Commodus, became an initiate of Mithra, a secretive cult that dominated Rome until the time of Aurelius and Galerius (Cumont, Mysteries, 87, 199 ...
The church of Laodicea is the last of seven churches addressed in Revelation. This harsh pronouncement suggests that the Christians at Laodicea—located in modern Turkey—wavered in their commitments to the Christian faith. The historical and archaeological context of this situation is worth investigating. Temple A at Laodicea, Turkey.
Jones tackles the familiar line that Domitian, who reigned between 81 and 96 C.E., was a great persecutor of Christians. This “fact” is now standard stock in much popular writing on the book of Revelation and is even found in some scholarly tomes. In his discussion, Jones carefully rehearses how this “fact” developed.
The Archaeological Quest for the Earliest Christians. Part one of a two-part examination. This is the first of two posts written by Dr. Douglas Boin on new archaeological and historical research in the study of early Christianity, drawn from his book Coming Out Christian in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s ...
In their first attempt at Christian art, Christians had depicted an idea which non-Christians valued, too. Image: Yale University Art Gallery, Public Domain, inventory number 1932.1200. The bishop wasn’t happy, but many Christians had their own ideas about how to follow Jesus—and it involved making connections with people in town.
Even as Christian populations grew, distrust and persecution by their Roman rulers forced the early church to stay out of the public eye. The situation changed in 313 A.D. when the emperor Constantine made Christianity a licit religion of the Roman Empire. With this acceptance came the construction of large public buildings, or churches, to ...
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First the dates: The Romans destroyed the Second Temple (Herod’s Temple) on the same date that the Babylonians had destroyed the First Temple (Solomon’s Temple) in 586 B.C.E. But the exact date of the Babylonian destruction is uncertain. Two different dates are given in the Hebrew Bible for the destruction of the First Temple.