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Star of Bethlehem
The Star of Bethlehem is described in the Gospel of Matthew as the light that led the magi to Bethlehem.

Church Fathers - Eastern Church Fathers
Short descriptions of the four fathers of the Eastern Church.

Tetradrachms
Tetradrachms is a silver Roman coin.

Psalms
Psalms are Biblical hymns.

Essenes
Essenes were a group of Jews in the Second Temple Period.

Denarii
Denarii is a Roman coin used in New Testament times.

Aramaic
Aramaic is a Semitic language used by many Jews by the time of Jesus.

Apocrypha
Apocrypha refers to books of the Bible.

Early Christianity Glossary - Terms in Early Christianity
Glossary of terms and people connected with early Christianity.

Who Were the Disciples?
Who were the disciples of Jesus depicted in the painting The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.

Armenia Becomes Christian
After contact with centers of early Christianity at Antioch and Edessa, Armenia accepted Christianity as its state religion in A.D. 306 or thereabouts.

Apostolic See
The early centers of Christianity were known as Apostolic Sees.

Apostle - Christian Apostles
Apostles were disciples of Jesus.

Patrology
Patrology is the study of the writings of the early Church fathers.

10 Persecutions in the Early Church
List of the ten persecutions of Christians in the Early Church.

Eremite
In the early Christian Church one way to devote oneself to spirituality was to become an eremite.

Dating Easter
Modern attempts at reconciling the western Resurrection Day celebrations (Easter) with the Orthodox Pashca (Easter) tying it to the vernal equinox with Pope Gregory XIII and currently with advanced astronomical calculations.

Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era
Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era

Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era
Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era

Love, Sex, and Tragedy, by Simon Goldhill Book Review
Book Review of Simon Goldhill's Love, Sex, and Tragedy, a new answer to the "Why study classics?" question.

Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus How Herod the Great Became King
In Antiquities of the Jews - Book XIV, the respected Jewish historian Flavius Josephus tells the somewhat convoluted story of how Herod the Great managed to come to power in Judea.