Christianity's growth in the decades after the crucifixion is a narrative seeded with mysteries. The early accounts of Jesus as Christ, as savior, spread in the late 40s A.D. through the travels, ...

Bonz is managing editor of Harvard Theological Review. She received a doctorate from Harvard Divinity School, with a dissertation on Luke-Acts as a literary challenge to the propaganda of imperial ...

This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt containing a combination of biblical and other early Christian texts. An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, is up ...

The Crosby-Schoyen Codex at Christie's auction house in Paris. The manuscript goes up for auction in London on June 11, 2024. Julien De Rosa/AFP via Getty Images An important piece of early Christian ...

Five carbonized loaves of communion bread, dating back to the 7th-8th centuries AD, have emerged from the ruins of ancient Eirenopolis, providing unprecedented insight into Byzantine religious ...

In the last chapter of his book Promise and Poison: The Story of Emerging Christianity, John Van Hagen writes: My purpose in writing this book is to present the efforts of emerging Christianity to ...

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 ...

How women were instrumental to the rise of Christianity. I, Amy, am often asked why I became a historical theologian of early Christianity—what it was that gripped my imagination and pricked my desire ...

Women who provided spaces in which early Christian communities could congregate were already being ignored in contemporary writings. In addition, centuries of Christian tradition have overlooked their ...

Valentin de Boulogne's oil-on-canvas painting “Saint Paul Writing his Epistles” is one of many depictions of Paul and other Christian writers toiling alone, perhaps with the help of the holy spirit or ...