Early Christianity

orthodoxy 143, 158–65; see also

doctrine; heresy

Pachomius, Egyptian monk 179–80

paganism 16, 31–2, 43–4, 79, 118,

194–6, 197–200; see also

emperor worship; persecution;

Theos Hypsistos

pagans: target of Christian mission

117

Pagels, E. 21, 142, 179, 184

Palestine 155; see alsoCaesarea;

Jerusalem

Pamphylia 133

papyrus 62, 92–3, 194–5, 210, 233;

see alsocartonnage; Egypt; Nag

Hammadi

parousia162, 203

‘parting of the ways’: between

Judaism and Christianity 105–6,

239

Passion of the Christ, The(film) 26,

97

Passover 157

Paul, apostle: Jewishness: 99;

conversion 121, 132; letters

69–70, 71, 134, 136–7, 142–3,

151–3, 154, 159, 177; missionary

journeys 16, 90, 115–18, 123,

125–41, 154; name 132–3; trial

216

Paul of Samosata, bp of Antioch

204

Paul(l)us, Sergius, Roman governor

of Cyprus 132–6; see also

Antioch in Pisidia

pax deorum 195

Perge 133

periodization 9–10

Perpetua, martyr 201

persecution: by pagan emperors

10–11, 149, 187, 188–96,

210–11; continued after

Constantine 11, 207–8

Philip the Arab, emp. 190, 204

Philippi 116, 137, 140

Philippines 29

Philo 86, 139

philosophy, Greek: influence on

Christianity 79–80, 122, 159, 164

Philostorgius, historian 41

Phoebe, associate of Paul 151

Phrygia 163, 182, 193

Pilate, Pontius 90, 100–1, 187

Pliny the Younger 113; governor of

Bithynia and Pontus 211, 220–3;

letter on the Christians 211–13,

214–17;see alsoTrajan

Plotinus 177

pluralism: religious 122–4

polytheism 32

Pontus 118, 211–24; see alsoPliny

the Younger

Porphyry 87–8, 177, 205

Praetextatus, Vettius Agorius 209

prophecy 73, 146, 162–3

Protestantism 23, 49, 52, 55, 56–7,

175

pseudepigrapha 84–5

Puteoli 118

Q (Quelle): source for gospels 72,

184, 238

Quirinius, Roman governor of Syria

66, 186

Qumran: Jewish texts from 82–4,

103, 167, 170

Quo Vadis(film) 188

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