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In the 2nd century CE, as Christianity was in the process of becoming an independent religion, a body of literature emerged that scholars classify as apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. Apocrypha (Greek: apokryptein, "to hide away") are those books...

St. Peter and St. Paul etching containing a Chi-Rho

Apostle Paul, oil on canvas by Rembrandt, c. 1633. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Women in the New Testament are presented for the most part along the contours of both Jewish and Greco-Roman concepts of the social construction of gender roles. Women’s value to society was in their role in procreation. There are some exceptions...

Saint Paul swimming to Malta from the wrecked ship, mosaic designed by Boris Anrep in 1961, put together by Peter Indri in 1964-5. St. Paul's chapel, Westminster Cathedral.

Mosaic of Paul receiving the Macedonian Call, while at the ancient city of Alexandria Troas Acts of the Apostles 16:8-10 Berea, Greece

Saint Paul preaching, stained glass from St Patrick's Cathedral, New York.

The War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802), part of the broader French Revolutionary Wars, was the second attempt by an alliance of major European powers to defeat Revolutionary France. The Second Coalition, which included Russia, Austria...

Christianity began as a sect of Judaism in Judea in the 1st century CE and spread to the cities of the Eastern Roman Empire and beyond. In these cities, non-Jews, Gentiles, wanted to join the movement, and these Gentile-Christians soon outnumbered...

New Testament is the name for the second half of the Christian Bible, compiled from the 2nd century CE, after the separation of Christianity from Judaism. The Christian Bible retained books of the Jewish scriptures, the Old Testament, as...