November 1, 2022

Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History

Canaletto, *Rome: The Arch of Constantine* (1742) Royal Collection [Wikimedia].

Corke-Webster argues that the History reflects Eusebius’ particular socio-political circumstances during the first quarter of the fourth century.

October 31, 2022

Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran: Fact or Assumption?

by Patrick Angiolillo in Book Notes, Review

[H]is project does bring to the fore the question of what these terms—as classificatory labels—might have meant to the ancient authors who used them, and, perhaps more within our control, what they mean for scholars today. If our evidence seems to resist our current attempts at classification, perhaps we need to rethink how we are classifying.

October 17, 2022

Sacred Stimulus: Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome

by Ian Kinman in Review, Book Notes

View of the interior of Santa Costanza in Rome (Wikimedia © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro).

Noga-Banai structures her study around repeated journeys between Jerusalem and Rome from the first through fifth centuries, tracing a period from subtle to increasingly assured visual appropriation of memories and tropes, culminating in a self-assured and assertive Rome confident in its identity as the perceived historical center of the Christian movement.