My Syllabus for “The Birth of Christianity”

September 02, 2021 00:12:13
My Syllabus for “The Birth of Christianity”
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My Syllabus for “The Birth of Christianity”

Sep 02 2021 | 00:12:13

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Classes have now started at UNC, and I’m back in the classroom. Last year it was all remote teaching (NOT fun for anyone, though my classes were terrific); this year we are starting out live, and desperately hoping we will be able to continue that way. For me, the most exciting part of the semester is that I”m teaching a course that I literally have not taught in 25 years. There’s lots of reasons for that — among other things, I ended up having to teach other things and other colleagues came into the department who could and wanted to teach it. But the course is more closely related to my research over these past 25 years than even my New Testament classes: this one deals with Christianity in the second and third centuries, and it is called “The Birth of Christianity.” Here is the syllabus for it! Read by Petra Ortiz

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