Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a long-lost early Christian community, which sheds new light on the religion's history. Excavations conducted in the village of Samahij, Bahrain, between ...

Dionysios’ letter is an indication of how some early Christian networks had begun to grow extensive and stable enough to direct their resources both to local and non-local needs.

The last four chapters of the book focus on the history of the emerging Christian communities in the mid-second century. Van Hagen is quite taken with the Christian community described in the Didache.

For Ashkenazi, this work served as the initial spark that led him to question why so many churches were found in such small communities. He soon realized that the practice was widespread. The ...

A pivotal work in Biblical Performance Criticism has demonstrated how the social context of early Christian communities was shaped by the re-enactment of narrative events, thereby illuminating the ...

An Israeli archaeologist points at a nearly 1,800-year-old decorated floor from an early Christian prayer hall that Israeli archaeologists discovered adjacent to Megiddo prison, on November 6, 2005.

Israeli settlers “feel that everything belongs to them,” Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, told NBC News.