Browsing the archives for the early christianity category

15 Dec 08

Voting About God

Eric Sowell points to and discusses a very interesting looking book by Ramsay MacMullen, a giant in the social history of the Christianization of the Roman Empire. When awarding him with a a lifetime Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2001, the American History Association stated, “Ramsay MacMullen is the greatest historian of the Roman Empire [...]

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14 Dec 08

Book Review: Jewish Believers in Jesus, Pt. 1

Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries
Editors: Oskar Skarsaune and Reidar Hvalvik
Hardcover: 930 pages
Publisher: Hendrickson
ISBN: 9781565637634
Buy: Hendrickson; Amazon
Though it is a bit overdue, I would like to extend my gratitude to Hendrickson Publishers for sending me a review copy of Jewish Believers in Jesus, edited by Oskar Skarsaune and Reidar Hvalvik. This weighty volume came [...]

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22 Aug 08

In the Mail: Peter Brown's The Body and Society

Another thank you is due. I extend my enormous gratitude to Columbia University Press for sending to me the twentieth anniversary edition of Peter Brown’s work on marriage and sexual practices in early Christianity, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (or see the book at CUP’s website). Here is [...]

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29 Dec 07

Hagner's Response to Nanos' Critique

I have just noticed that the SBL session reviewing “Jewish Christianity” (S19-116) is available for free audio download (HT: JC Baker). I will be reflecting on the exchange between Hagner and Nanos a little later (as has Matt Barnes on his blog), but I thought that I would share Hagner’s response to Nanos’ critique here [...]

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27 Dec 07

Thanks, Hendrickson!

I received a Christmas gift from Hendrickson Publishers while I was away visiting my wife’s family. They have graciously sent along what is a very important publication on “Jewish Christianity”: Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries edited by Oskar Skarsaune and Reidar Hvalvik. This book, along with Jewish Christianity Reconsidered edited by Matt Jackson-McCabe, [...]

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