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, ancient ...
Last summer brought big news for scholars of early Christianity. Three previously unknown gospel fragments were published for the first time as part of an ongoing series, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. These ...
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How Christianity became a suspicious movement in ancient Rome
The persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire is often imagined as constant and widespread, but historical evidence suggests a more complex reality. In many cases, punishments were local and ...
Archaeologists have discovered an inscribed silver amulet that one theologian now says may rewrite the history of Christianity north of the Alps mountain range. The inscribed amulet was found buried ...
Writing a comprehensive history of American Christianity is a mammoth undertaking that few historians attempt. It’s been more ...
Jennifer Wright Knust has a question for the ages: When has discourse about sex been just about sex? More to the point, when has it not been about power? Rarely, suggests the scholar, an assistant ...
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