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Reviews of Professor Harland's work:
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Reviews of Professor Harland's work:
"The primary contribution of the work to early Christian studies, and to the study of ancient religion more generally, lies in how few pages are actually spent on "early Christians," and how many are spent on their world. Harland's work is a social-historical analysis of ethnic, familial, and association identity markers in the Eastern Roman Empire, and his limited discussion of early Christian sources is firmly embedded in this context. Harland uses contemporary social-scientific models of identity theory, ethnic studies, and migration studies, and applies these models primarily to understudied inscriptional evidence, in order to explore the social and ideological contexts in which early Christian groups first came into being. This is important and enlightening work, and the focus on contemporaneous non-Christian identity markers and identity groupings is a welcome addition both to the literature on religion in the Roman world and, more indirectly, on the growth of the new Christian movement."
"Harland does not deny the uniqueness of Christian or Judean groups, but to study them alongside associations—indeed, as associations—requires him to lay stress on similarities rather than differences. In his defense, this approach contrasts with much previous scholarship that emphasized—and, in light of Harland's convincing studies, probably overemphasized—the uniqueness of Christians and Judeans."
"Until recently, scholars of early Judaism and Christianity have generally pursued the differential quality. Harland's effort to broaden that perspective by seeing what we might learn about Judeans and Christians by considering their similarities to other "cultural minority groups" in antiquity, even if it is overstated at times, therefore comes as a welcome alternative. The sharpness with which Harland presents that perspective makes it all the more rewarding."
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The conclusion of Project Conversion has arrived. In this video, we see ...
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The conclusion of Project Conversion has arrived. In this video, we see many scenes during my year of "spiritual promiscuity," but it this really the end?
Music credit: Markus Schulz "Cause You Know (Is This The End)"
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Greeting from israeli friend.
אני ישראלי - אתה ישראלי.
ישראל רק (ליהודים).
greating from israel.
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