A previous post discussed the importance of reading out a text in the proper manner in elite literate circles of Greco-Roman society. It ...

My Dad pointed me to a reference in a letter of Pliny the Younger to a Virginius Rufus who had been killed by a large bookroll. It was too ...

I have been reading through Richard Bauckham, ed. The Gospel for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,...

The following excerpt originally appeared in The Appalachian Theology Review , (an email periodical) on June 15, 2015.       The Roman b...