From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries
Peter Lampe, professor of New Testament at Heidelberg, begins his magisterial book by giving us a definite ...
The Making of a Christian Aristocracy, by Michele Renee Salzman
This fascinating and important book attempts to explain why the fourth-century Roman senatorial aristocracy turned "from paganism to Christianity." Michele Renee Salzman, a professor of history at ...
Late Antiquity, edited by G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown and Oleg Grabar
When Arnaldo Momigliano was at the University of Chicago he used to argue that we should teach not "church history" but just "history." This is the implicit view of most of the contributors to this...
Desire of the Everlasting Hills, by Thomas Cahill
Thomas Cahill's title comes from Genesis 49:26. Though it is hard to see any reference to Jesus in that passage, it does come close to defining this book's tone....