Essay Assignment. A Glimpse into my Course on Roman History: Jesus and other “Divine Beings” in Antiquity

As one author once wrote: “The past is a foreign land, they do things there differently”. This semester I teach a course on the Roman civilization (from the end of the republic up to the “end” of the Western Read more

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In the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Summing up the Challenges and Pointing out Solutions

A Basic Chronology and the Most Important Sources for the Historical Jesus

In the last couple of posts (see: here, here, here, and here), I explained the basic methodological problems historians are faced with when Read more

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