Category: Ancient Rome

Katapetasma (Blogger): A Symbolic Defeat

Posted on 6 Oct 2020 by

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Katapetasma, “The Demonized Gerasene and the Paganized Greek: Eschatological Allegory in Mark 5:1-20” (8.17.20), scribesofthekingdom686237748.wordpress.com. This deliverance of the gentile wrought by the destruction of Legion also brings judgement upon those who refuse to abandon the defunct pagan order—and herein lies the source of… Continue Reading “Katapetasma (Blogger): A Symbolic Defeat”

Category: Ancient Rome, Jesus, Jesus versus Demons, The Gospel of Mark

Bart Ehrman: Emperor Trajan’s Provisos to Pliny the Younger

Posted on 2 Aug 2018 by

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Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World (Simon and Schuster: 2018), 187. [In his letter to Pliny the Younger concerning how to deal with Christians] Trajan does stress two provisos. Christians were not to be sought out. There… Continue Reading “Bart Ehrman: Emperor Trajan’s Provisos to Pliny the Younger”

Category: 'The Triumph of Christianity', Ancient Rome, Bart Ehrman, Christian History, Christianity, Emperors, Magistrates, Pliny the Younger, Trajan (98-117 CE)

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