Jesus, Ante-Nicene fathers of the early Church and men who led heretical movements, and controversies.
List of the ten persecutions of Christians in the Early Church.
Apocrypha refers to books of the Bible.
Apostles were disciples of Jesus.
The early centers of Christianity were known as Apostolic Sees.
Aramaic is a Semitic language used by many Jews by the time of Jesus.
After contact with centers of early Christianity at Antioch and Edessa, Armenia accepted Christianity as its state religion in A.D. 306 or thereabouts.
Really a medieval figure, Benedict is the father of Western monasticism.
Short descriptions of the four fathers of the Eastern Church.
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.
Denarii is a Roman coin used in New Testament times.
Glossary of terms and people connected with early Christianity.
In the early Christian Church one way to devote oneself to spirituality was to become an eremite.
Essenes were a group of Jews in the Second Temple Period.
Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era
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.
Book Review of Simon Goldhill's Love, Sex, and Tragedy, a new answer to the "Why study classics?" question.
Patrology is the study of the writings of the early Church fathers.
Psalms are Biblical hymns.
The Star of Bethlehem is described in the Gospel of Matthew as the light that led the magi to Bethlehem.
Tetradrachms is a silver Roman coin.
Who were the disciples of Jesus depicted in the painting The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
