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Kasper teams with journalist - and survivor - Mary Knudson to give readers an honest account of this misunderstood disease

Terrie revisits the literature and history of the region

the exciting new ways of reading the Sermon suggested in Betz' seminal work continue to inform our search for a fuller and clearer grasp of the multi-faceted and dynamic world of nascent Christianity

At the Origins of Christian Worship Howard Jacobson it makes the case that"At the Origins of Christian Worship" can deepen readers' understanding of early Christian worship by setting it within the context of the Roman world in which it developed. Hurtado highlights the two central characteristics of earliest Christian worship: its exclusive rejection of the ancient world gods and its inclusion of Christ with God as the focus of devotion.