The case of the Jewish catacombs exemplifies how scholars of the ancient world have long worked with undertheorized ideas about religious identities, religious communities, and the relationship between material culture and lived religion, among other things.
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This essay thus explores Paul as a mediating intellectual who uses the space in his letters to imagine a new social form, and likewise to establish it in the minds of his audience in a persuasive way.
Read More“The Most Daring Blasphemy”: Getting Students to Think Critically About Extra-Canonical Texts
Dr. Sarah Rollens turned a final paper assignment into a rhetorical exercise in canon formation.
Read MoreCanons, Communities, and Christian Origins: A Response to the AJR Canon Forum
Paul preaching to Jews in Damascus
Paul preaching to Jews in Damascus
Dr. Rollens responds to Canon: An AJR Forum with a New Testament perspective.
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