Early Christian Hagiography and Roman History. By Timothy D. Barnes
This book—highly readable and, because of its small page size, not as long as its page extent suggests—embodies the diverse fruits of a very long period of historical research. It ranges in coverage from the crucifixion of Jesus, discussed on p. 1, to hagiographical texts of the sixth century. Its b...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 356-357 |
| Review of: | Early Christian hagiography and Roman history (Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2010) (Gould, Graham)
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| Summary: | This book—highly readable and, because of its small page size, not as long as its page extent suggests—embodies the diverse fruits of a very long period of historical research. It ranges in coverage from the crucifixion of Jesus, discussed on p. 1, to hagiographical texts of the sixth century. Its bibliographical learning is immense, and its historical and critical judgements (the nature of the study means that over long stretches it consists almost entirely of a succession of such judgements) precisely and clearly expressed. To give a few examples, taken from the first chapter: Barnes takes it as certain that Paul journeyed to and was executed in Spain (p. 35), that Revelation was written between the death of Nero and the victory of Vespasian (p. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flr037 |