Hartmut Leppin, Kathrin Luddecke, The early Christians: from the beginnings to Constantine. Classical scholarship in translation. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 484. ISBN 9781316517239.Review by
Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Aarhus University. akp@cas.au.dk... The individual chapters present an impressive range of examples from the first three hundred years of Christ-religion demonstrating Leppin’s enormous breadth of view over the source material and an ability to present it in a thought-provoking and appealing way. His sagacity is admirable, but I also have some queries. ...
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