Review | The History of the Church: A New Translation

Lucio Fontana, Madonna (1956) [Image courtesy of Flickr] — Lucio Fontana, *Madonna* (1956) [Image courtesy of Flickr]

Schott’s translation requires dedication on the part of the reader who may need to use the glossary, but also renders the Greek language and rhetorical techniques Eusebius employs more visible.

March 30, 2020

Book Note | Outsider Designations and Boundary Construction in the New Testament

by Peter Z. Fraser-Morris in Book Notes

Piet Mondriaan, Composition with Red, Yellow, Blue, and Black (1921) Kunstmuseum Den Haag [Wikimedia] — Piet Mondriaan, *Composition with Red, Yellow, Blue, and Black* (1921) Kunstmuseum Den Haag [Wikimedia]

Trebilco sets out to explore how early Christians used outsider designations for boundary maintenance and in-group identity construction.

October 8, 2018

Book Note | A Century of Miracles: Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410

by Peter Z. Fraser-Morris in Book Notes

Framing his book with the two great miracles of Constantine and Theodosius, Drake attempts to tease out exactly how this discourse functioned in late antiquity, especially for Christians.

May 31, 2017

Book Note | Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority: Platonists, Priests, and Gnostics in the Third Century CE

by Peter Z. Fraser-Morris in Book Notes

"Marx-Wolf demonstrates that these Platonist thinkers were closely connected despite the fact that one is a Christian and the other three are non-Christian. To this end, she reads these Platonists not in terms of different social or religious affiliations, but in terms of a shared paideia (2-3). She contends that this common formation explains elements of their thought that might otherwise be “surprising” such as Porphyry’s rejection of animal sacrifice."