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Origen might also be in the same boat. There are some who queries whether an Origen was split into two characters or if one of his supposed teachers, a certain Ammonius [Saccas], had been (or both, or neither). With one of the split characters being an embellished Christianised version (see Origen ...

- Archaeologists have found Christian texts or art carbon-dated or otherwise scientifically dated to the 1st two centuries AD. It'd be good to have specifics ... I'm hesitant to call that indisputable, but it's generally the kind of thing people agree on. For example, we have papyrus pieces from th...

Regardless, I have generally found that people do accept that the works of Eusebius were actually by him, and most do not dance in the moonlight of suspicion when it comes to the history of early Christianity from the fourth century and forward. As a matter of actual practice, the ante-Nicene texts...

The main fact I can come up with is the earliest know texts are the letters of Paul, first knowledge of which is tied to Marcion I think it's up for debate whether Paul's reference to an euangelion / evangelion - good news - a gospel - is to a text or just to a concept based on selected passages LXX...

This is dated quite a bit later than the second century, but one might wonder what might have inspired an early-9th century monk, Hrabanus Maurus in the Abbey of Fulda (in present-day Germany) to come up with this image of Christ, in which He holds himself in the shape of the cross, but with no wood...

Justine does of course seem to know Matthew or at least traditions or texts that depend on Matthew. Or Justin knew traditions Matthew either relied on or used ... +/- Matthew used Justin ... Justine seems to know and use the Infancy Gospel of James. There certainly seems to be common themes /tropes...

Excerpts from David Runia's 1993 book, Philo in Early Christian Literature . . Chapter Four Philo and the New Testament ... 3. The Epistle to the Hebrews The New Testament book that shows the most affinity to Philonic thought is unquestionably the Epistle to the Hebrews ... Hurst (1990) concludes th...

My main focus was on "... certain of the Christian believers ... have corrupted the Gospel from its original integrity, to a threefold, and fourfold, and many-fold degree, and have remodelled it , so that they might be able to answer objections . I think that is a pretty good support for the propos...

Acts of Peter , of the second half of the second century has, in 38: "What else is Christ, but the Word, the sound of God? So that the Word is the upright beam whereon I am crucified . And the sound is that which crosseth it, the nature of man . And the nail which holdeth the cross-tree unto the up...

This 2017 thread by Ben - Christian responses to imperial propaganda - would seem to be pertinent to 'Empire Studies'