Content taken and revised from my 2003 PhD Dissertation -> Dissertation_Mark_Nispel_2003 In the earlier post and paper, “‘Away with the Atheists’: Anti-Christian Rhetorica In Pre-Christendom” I presented an initial model of Christianity as a minority population within the Jewish community, which itself was a minority population within the Roman empire.…
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ἀχειροποίητος: ‘Made Without Hands’ – The Lord’s Work of Resurrection and Salvation
Link to dedicated page. I wrote this paper almost 10 years ago. I attempted to have it published at the time but was unsuccessful. It is a continuation of my work on early Christian linguistic creativity which resulted in short hand testimonia and verbal references to Old Testament proof texts…