Papers on “The Birth of Christianity”

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If you checked out my syllabus for my undergraduate course this semester, you will have noticed that every week each student is to write a two-page “position paper” on an assigned topic, something of intrigue that, for this class, will involve texts and issues they have probably never addressed or even heard of, even though if they were raised as church-going Christians. I certainly certainly hadn’t when I was their age…. Read by Petra Ortiz

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