While various forms of post-Christian Judaism today are more centered around ... and all the other elements of ancient, Biblical worship. There was not a complete shift away from liturgical or ...

Most scientists claim that Romans adopted their gods directly from the Greeks. The reality, however, is more complicated.

This mosaic, dating back to around 230 AD, offers evidence of early Christian worship and is the earliest known inscription identifying Jesus as God. Discovered between 2003 and 2005 by Israel ...

Early Christian communities produced many ... That story is intimately connected to the ritual that is the centerpiece of Christian worship, the celebration of the Eucharist, the Last Supper.

Karen L. King is Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity at Harvard University in the Divinity School. She has published widely in the areas of Gnosticism ...

I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...