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Looking at the diverse source materials available, from the earliest New Testament texts and the complex treaties of third century authors such as Lactantius, to archaeology, epigraphy and papyrology, the book examines what is needed to study the subject, what materials were available, how useful they were, and how the study of the subject may be approached. The imposition of "correct belief," religious uniformity, and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the difficulties in establishing the Christian church, the relationship with...

The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise a vast collection of Jewish documents written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, and encompassing many subjects and literary styles. They include manuscripts or fragments of every book in the Hebrew Bible except the Book of Esther, all of them created nearly one thousand years earlier than any previously known biblical manuscripts. The scrolls also contain the earliest existing biblical commentary, on the Book of Habakkuk, and many other writings, among them religious works pertaining to Jewish sects of the time. In this book we will analyze the last and most...

Investigaciones modernas sobre las causas que llevaron a la destruccion de los esplendidos edificios y ornamentos que adornaban la antigua ciudad de Roma han cambiado por completo las creencias: la destruccion de la ciudad no es producto del ataque de los godos, los hunos y los vandalos. De hecho, fueron los propios romanos los que destruyeron su ciudad: desde los tiempos de la ciudad de ladrillo del emperador Augusto, transformada en una esplendida ciudad de marmol, hasta la epoca en que definitivamente se instalara el poder papal. En todo este inmenso periodo de tiempo ha sido costumbre la...