"What terms would early 'Christians' have used when they addressed one another? What would they have called each other? Would they have said, 'Are you a Christian?' or 'Are you a disciple?' or Are you a believer?' How would various 'Christian' groups have answered the question '…
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Conversation and community -- Locating the symposium -- Voice and community in sympotic literature -- Plutarch -- Athenaeus -- Early Christian commensality and the literary symposium -- Methodius -- Sympotic culture and sympotic literature in late antiquity -- Macrobius -- Consu…
"This study investigates why "faith" (pistis/fides) was so important to early Christians that the concept and praxis dominated the writings of the New Testament. It argues that such a study must be interdisciplinary, locating emerging Christianities in the social practices and m…
The study examines the formal shape of the prefaces of Greek biblical commentaries in Late Antiquity and their theology of commenting. It offers an interesting insight into the theological identity of the commentators as well as into the cultural transfer on which their work is …
