Ancient Christianities
The First Five Hundred Years
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How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and piety
The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman Empire? In Ancient Christianities, Paula Fredriksen traces the evolution of early Christianity—or rather, of early Christianities—through five centuries of Empire, mapping its pathways from the hills of Judea to the halls of Rome and Constantinople.
The New Testament, as we know it, represents only a small selection of the many gospels, letters, acts of apostles, and revelations that circulated before the establishment of the imperial church. It tells how the gospel passed from Jesus, to the apostles, thence to Paul. But by using our peripheral vision, by looking to noncanonical and paracanonical texts, by availing ourselves of information derived from papyri, inscriptions, and archaeology, we can see a different, richer, much less linear story emerging. Fredriksen brings together these many sources to reconstruct the lively interactions of pagans, Jews, and Christians, tracing the conversions of Christianity from an energetic form of Jewish messianism to an arm of the late Roman state.
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The McKinley Years: The Life and Times of our 25th President utilizes the rich resources of the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum archives. Through photos and documents only available at the museum, Christopher Kenney paints a picture of not only William McKinley the President but William McKinley the man. This book explores McKinley's early years, service in the Civil War, family life, and his rise from lawyer to Congressman, to Governor, and finally to the highest office in the land.
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Paul
- The Pagans' Apostle
- De: Paula Fredriksen
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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Often seen as the author of timeless Christian theology, Paul himself heatedly maintained that he lived and worked in history's closing hours. His letters propel his listeners into two ancient worlds, one Jewish, one pagan. The first was incandescent with apocalyptic hopes, expecting God through his messiah to fulfill his ancient promises of redemption to Israel. The second teemed with ancient actors, not only human but also divine: angry superhuman forces, jealous demons, and hostile cosmic gods.
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unabridged bias.
- De Ray Carloni en 03-13-18
De: Paula Fredriksen
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The Shortest History of France
- From Roman Gaul to Revolution and Cultural Radiance: A Global Story for Our Times
- De: Colin Jones
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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As nationalism and anti-immigration rhetoric surge in France (and elsewhere), The Shortest History of France presents a portrait of a nation whose politics and society have always been shaped by global forces. Grounded in up-to-date historical scholarship that avoids the traps of national exceptionalism, Jones reminds us that it was only after the first millennium of French history that a nation-state began to emerge.
De: Colin Jones
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Miracles and Wonder
- The Historical Mystery of Jesus
- De: Elaine Pagels
- Narrado por: Eunice Wong
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I had high hopes for this title
- De Christine en 04-02-25
De: Elaine Pagels
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Journeys of the Mind
- A Life in History
- De: Peter Brown
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 30 h y 20 m
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The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and pathbreaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the "neglected half-millennium" now known as late antiquity was crucial to the development of modern Europe and the Middle East. In Journeys of the Mind, Brown recounts his life and work, describing his efforts to recapture the spirit of an age.
De: Peter Brown
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American Laughter, American Fury
- Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750–1850
- De: Eran A. Zelnik
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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Eran A. Zelnik offers a cultural history of early America that shows how humor among white men served to define and construct not only whiteness and masculinity but also American political culture and democracy more generally. Zelnik traces the emerging bonds of affinity that white male settlers in North America cultivated through their shared, transformative experience of mirth. This humor—a category that includes not only jokes but also play, riot, revelry, and mimicry—shaped the democratic and anti-elitist sensibilities of Americans.
De: Eran A. Zelnik
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Honor Thy Fathers
- Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers
- De: Zachary Garris
- Narrado por: Benjamin Garrett
- Duración: 3 h y 54 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Calvin. Luther. Knox. Vermigli. In recent years, the Reformed world has seen a resurgence of interest in recovering the doctrinal work of these men and others from the shadows of centuries gone by. This work of retrieval often requires courage, as we modern heirs of the Reformers inevitably discover that some of what we thought to be “Reformed” proved to be theological novelty in the face of the primary sources. We often discover that 19th- and 20th-century social movements and cultural pressures have successfully smuggled their ideas into the bedrock of our thinking.
De: Zachary Garris
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Mediterranean Sweep
- The USAAF in the Italian Campaign
- De: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 15 h y 16 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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With the defeat of the Germans and Italians on Sicily in mid-July 1943, the focus of the war in the air shifted toward the battle for the Italian mainland itself. This campaign took place in the context of the coming invasion of northwest Europe, with many of the best units from the North African and Sicilian campaigns withdrawn to prepare for the new front, while those units that remained had a lower priority for replacements of men and material.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mediterranean Sweep
- De Ross Gordon en 03-27-25
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After Jesus, Before Christianity
- A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements
- De: Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, y otros
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion and its early dissemination.
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Excellent and informative
- De Claire Z. en 04-17-22
De: Erin Vearncombe, y otros
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The House Divided
- Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East
- De: Barnaby Rogerson
- Narrado por: Keval Shah
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, we need to revisit its origins—which go back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632; the accidental coup that set aside the claims of his son Ali; and the slaughter of Ali's own son Husayn at Karbala. These events, known to every Muslim, have created a slender fault line in the Middle East.
De: Barnaby Rogerson
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Is Anyone Listening?
- What Animals Are Saying to Each Other and to Us
- De: Denise L. Herzing
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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If you could pose one question to a dolphin, what would it be? And what might a dolphin ask you? For forty years, researcher and author Denise L. Herzing has investigated these and related questions of marine mammal communication. But the dolphins are not the only ones talking, and in this wide-ranging and accessible book, Herzing explores the astonishing realities of interspecies communication, a skill that humans currently lack.
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The Jewish Gospels
- The Story of the Jewish Christ
- De: Daniel Boyarin
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 4 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Guiding us through a rich tapestry of new discoveries and ancient scriptures, The Jewish Gospels makes the powerful case that our conventional understandings of Jesus and of the origins of Christianity are wrong. In Boyarin's scrupulously detailed account, the coming of the messiah was fully imagined in the ancient Jewish texts. Jesus, moreover, was embraced by many Jews as this person, and his core teachings were not at all a break from Jewish beliefs and teachings. Jesus and his followers, Boyarin reveals, were simply Jewish.
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Overall review
- De Suzanne Waters en 07-16-22
De: Daniel Boyarin
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Out of One, Many
- Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture
- De: Jennifer T. Roberts
- Narrado por: Petrea Burchard
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries, but also the enormous diversity in their ideas and beliefs.
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Jesus and the Forces of Death
- The Gospels' Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism
- De: Matthew Thiessen
- Narrado por: Jim Denison
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 11
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Although most people acknowledge that Jesus was a first-century Jew, interpreters of the Gospels often present him as opposed to Jewish law and customs—especially when considering his numerous encounters with the ritually impure. Matthew Thiessen corrects this popular misconception by placing Jesus within the Judaism of his day. Thiessen demonstrates that the Gospel writers depict Jesus opposing ritual impurity itself, not the Jewish ritual purity system or the Jewish law.
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Jesus as Torah observant
- De Randall G Myers, Jr en 06-23-24
De: Matthew Thiessen
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- Jacob Kilgore
- 04-17-25
Among the best
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