Essays that explore early Christian texts and the broader world in which they were written This volume of twelve essays celebrates the contributions of classici

The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narra

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An expert on early Christianity reveals how the early church invented stories of Christian martyrs—and how this persecution myth persists today. According to

The Virgin Mary has been idealized as a self-sacrificing mother throughout Christian history, but she is not the only ancient maternal figure whose story is c