Roman Emperor Nerva’s Reform of the Jewish Tax
05/22 | Roman Emperor Nerva’s reform of the Jewish Tax had a significant effect on Jews and Christians of the first century C.E. Read more…
Posted in Daily Life and Practice.
Tag: jewish christians
Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Seder?
01/12 | Many assume that Jesus’ Last Supper was a Seder, the ritual Passover meal. Examine evidence from the synoptic Gospels with scholar Jonathan Klawans. Read more…
Posted in Jesus/Historical Jesus.
The Origin of Christianity
01/07 | Geza Vermes explores the origin of Christianity by examining the characteristics of the Jewish Jesus movement to see how it developed into a distinctly gentile religion. Read more…
Posted in New Testament, Post-Biblical Period.
- The Ancient Library of Alexandria
- The Jewish-Christian Schism
- The Limits of Tolerance: Halakhah and History
- The November/December 2012 Biblical Archaeology Review
- The Fiscus Judaicus and the Parting of the Ways
- Pella: A Window on Survival
- How Jewish Is the New Testament?
- Resurrection
- Rereading Paul Together
