After a long period in which the persecutions of Christianity were really spasmodic, local, [and] involved very few people, suddenly in the middle of the 3rd century, the year 250, the Emperor Decius ...
Evidence indicating the sympathy which Palestinian Jews in the time of Diocletian expressed for the Christian martyrs when the Roman Emperor was persecuting was presented here today by Prof. Saul ...
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Ancient Rome didn’t abandon its gods overnight. The rise of Christianity was a slow transformation of the cult-based religious order that had structured Roman life for centuries ...
The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire, but its principles were sometimes misunderstood and membership of the sect could be dangerous. Although Jesus ...
Dive into Diocletian’s systematic crackdown on Christians across the Roman Empire, exploring the edicts, trials, and executions that marked the most severe imperial effort to eradicate the faith, and ...
For centuries, Christians were a small and sometimes persecuted minority within the Roman Empire. Yet by the 4th century, ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Cavan W. Concannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (THE ...