Peter and Paul are the two most famous and arguably most important of all Christian martyrs. No contemporary accounts of their deaths survive, so historians depend on later narratives for reconstructing the ends of the apostles lives. Traditionally, the Acts of Peter and Acts of…
"Peter and Paul are the two most famous and arguably the most important of all Christian martyrs. In spite of their notoriety, no contemporary accounts of their deaths survive, so historians depend on later narratives for reconstructing the ends of the apostles' lives. Tradition…
Antoon Schoors is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Arts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is the author of I Am God Your Saviour: A Form-Critical Study of the Main Genres in Isa XL-LV (Brill).
"The pyramid texts are the oldest body of extant literature from ancient Egypt. First carved on the walls of the burial chambers in the pyramids of kings and queens of the Old Kingdom, they provide the earliest comprehensive view of the way ancient Egyptians understood the struc…
The pyramid texts are the oldest body of extant literature from ancient Egypt. First carved on the walls of the burial chambers in the pyramids of kings and queens of the Old Kingdom, they provide the earliest comprehensive view of the way ancient Egyptians understood the struct…
The writings and later wisdom books
by Society of Biblical Literature
fromBible and Women
