Early Christianity
happen at any time, and at irregular intervals, during an emperor’s reign: for example, an emperor might receive several such ac ...
completion of the Claudian aqueduct. It gives the emperor’s titles as follows: Tiberius Claudius, son of Drusus, Caesar Augustus ...
2004: 184; cf. Bickerman 1968: 184). Thus Frontinus and the inscription from the Porta Praenestina agree on the year 52. Moreove ...
(a) In the year 25 January 51 to 24 January 52, he received his twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fourth acclamations as i ...
pieces of evidence are weighed, it looks most likely that Paul encountered Gallio some time in the second half of 51, or very ea ...
with Sergius Paulus is therefore purely literary, not historical’ (Conzelmann 1987: 100, spelling and emphasis in the original). ...
Certainly, Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, which may have been addressed in part to the Christians of Antioch in Pisidia, notes ...
(3) A further member of the family, Sergia Paullina, daughter of Lucius, is attested as a major landowner in central Asia Minor ...
were different individuals. However, given the prominence of the Sergii Paulli at Antioch in Pisidia displayed in the inscriptio ...
Although the description of Jesus Christ as saviour is central to modern expressions of Christianity, use of the word so ̄ ter i ...
the most significant developments in the history of paganism in the Roman period, seems to have originated as a spontaneous reac ...
Although the lines describing Augustus as a saviour (so ̄ ter) have been restored by the editors of the inscription, their prese ...
was Adolf Deissmann in his Licht vom Osten‚ published in 1908 and translated into English as Light from the Ancient East (Deissm ...
Inscriptions, Paul, Acts, and history The survey given above hints at ways in which our comprehen- sion of the career of the apo ...
Chapter 5 Doctrine and power: orthodoxy and organization 7 Discovering early Christianity At various points in this book I have ...
one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all’ (Ephesians4. 4–6). ...
meaning ‘I believe’) was issued by the council, after which it was called the Nicene creed. This statement is still regarded by ...
modern Christians call the Nicene creed is actually the formula drawn up at Constantinople nearly sixty years later. For while C ...
Jesus’ name in Greek (Ie ̄sous). Hence it was argued that the number of bishops at Nicaea was a fulfilment of biblical prophecy. ...
Romans themselves spoke and wrote Latin, and they imposed their tongue as the language of public business in the western empire; ...
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