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The Quest for the Historical Paul: Sorting Through Our Sources (Part 2)
By Dr. James Tabor. Read by Ken Teutsch.
The Quest for the Historical Paul: Sorting Through Our Sources (Part 1). Guest Post by James Tabor
Ahead of the upcoming New Insights Into The New Testament conference, James Tabor offers a few thoughts on how scholars can start to uncover...
How Strikingly Few Early Churches Were There? How Amazingly Many Christian Letters?
How many Christian churches would there likely have been within the first century after Jesus' death? Bart considers various ways of analysing this question....
Were Christians Statistically Insignificant in the First 200 years?
Bart argues that Christians were likely a very small percentage of the Roman empire for the first two centuries. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.
Exaggerating the Numbers of Early Christians
Bart argues that Christian exaggerations (Acts, Tertullian) are not very useful in charting how many Christians there were at any period in the early...
If You're Counting Christians, Who Counts as a Christian?
In trying to chart the early rise of Christianity, it's impossible to figure out what set of beliefs should count as "Christian." Read by...