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"Were the 'didaskaloi' tradents of the Jesus material and therefore guarantors of the historical reliability of the Gospels? And why was their fate so different

Christianity in the Second Century seeks to show how academic study on this critical period of Christian development has undergone change over the last thirty y

The rise of Christianity during the first four centuries of the common era was the pivotal development in Western history and profoundly influenced the later di