The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the ... Relaxing the rules This meant taking a more relaxed approach to ancient Jewish laws about food and circumcision. It was a slap in ...

Karen L. King is Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity at Harvard University in the Divinity School. She has published widely in the areas of Gnosticism ...

None of this was so during the first few centuries of the Christian movement, and remembering why—and how those early Christians designated themselves and each other—can offer lessons for today.

The vice president referenced a letter that ancient Church historian and apologist Tertullian wrote to Scapula, a proconsul ...

Mosaic inscriptions reveal faith and practice of early Christians. A church floor was discovered in Israel in 2004 in the ancient city of Megiddo. It was found a few miles down the road from Tel ...

The discovery of a Nestorian cross engraved on a rock in Anuradhapura and another unearthed in Sigiriya some years ago led Prof. Senarath Paranavitana to speculate whether Kasyapa and any other Lankan ...

uncovering fascinating new insights into the early history of Christianity. The small, silver amulet was originally found in 2018 at the archaeological site of Nida—an ancient Roman town located ...

Titus, Jesus, and God. This discovery is particularly significant as it suggests that Christianity might have reached north of the Alps as early as the 3rd century, pushing back previous estimates ...

Penniman has served extensively as a leader within the Bucknell Humanities Center. Prof. Penniman’s research focuses on the religions of late antiquity and the development of Christianity within the ...

Key fact No-one is certain of the date on which Jesus was born. The early Christians did not celebrate Christmas, and it wasn’t until the fourth century that the date of 25 December was decided on.