Metaphor and Its Limits – By Ellen Muehlberger
Ellen Muehlberger on Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World Douglas Boin starts his new book by revealing a secret about himself:
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Early Christianity
How Gay Were the Early Christians? Or, The Perils of Hyperbole in Historiography – By John David Penniman
John David Penniman on Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World The question of what happened to the Roman Empire between
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First Impressions #29: Douglas Boin
Art Remillard talks with Douglas Boin about his new book Coming Out Christian in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made
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Questioning Categories and Shifting Paradigms in the Study of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins – By Simon J. Joseph
Simon J. Joseph on George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam’s 1 Enoch 2 There is power in naming things. Too often,
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Christian Sexual Slander – By Taylor Petrey
Taylor Petrey on Susanna Drake’s Slandering the Jew The history of Christian anti-Judaism has become an important scholarly topic in the last half century, arising
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Coffee Table Talk with Christoph Markschies
[AUDIO] Coffee Table Talk at the Café Einstein Stammhaus in Berlin Christoph Markschies sits down with MRB Editor-in-Chief Timothy Michael Law for a chat about
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