The importance of martyrdom for the spread of Christianity in the first centuries of the Common Era is a question of enduring interest. In this innovative new study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second cen...

For well over two centuries the question of the composition of the Pentateuch has been among the most widespread and hotly debated issues in the field of biblical studies. In this book, Joel Baden presents a synthesized history of these disagreements...