The subject of persecution in the early Church, treated as a whole, has been somewhat neglected by English writers. The legal aspects of the matter, the relatio

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

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In Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire: Mutual Recognition Niko Huttunen challenges the interpretation of early Christian texts as anti-imperial docum