With the advent of Christianity, the need to take care of the outcast, the impoverished, and widows and orphans assumed an unprecedented importance in the Mediterranean world. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Early Christians wrote and preached about charitable giving, but did this lead to positive action? Bart examines the surviving evidence. Read by Brandon M....
Dr. Ehrman focuses on the Ebionites as an example of what came to be an early Christian "heresy." Read by John Paul Middlesworth