An expert on early Christianity reveals how the early church invented stories of Christian martyrs—and how this persecution myth persists today. According to

The age of martyrs is not a thing of the past … Churches burned. Christians beheaded. Faith communities driven underground. Governments forcing silence upon t

The Great Persecution under Diocletian and his imperial colleagues and successors is a foremost concern of modern scholarship on Roman persecution of Christians

In this book, Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama tackle the question: how does religious liberty develop?

The essays in this book consider issues of tolerance and intolerance faced by Jews and Christians between approximately 200 BCE and 200 CE. Several chapters are