Peter Brown in “The Conversion of Christianity” in the book, World of Late Antiquity, discusses Christianity and its impact on the decaying Roman Empire. On the other hand, Larry Hurtado in “The Early Christian Preference for the Codex” tries to Continue reading →

In  “The Conversion of Christianity” from The World of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown and  “The Early Christian Preference for the Codex” from The Earliest Christian Artifacts by Larry Hurtado, both focus on  major topics that are crucial  when it comes to the understanding Continue reading →

In the book The World of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown, he explores the spread of Christianity and how it effected those at the time. While Larry Hurtado did something similar in his book Earliest Christian Artifacts, he instead analyzed how Christianity Continue reading →

The manner in which the information about the early Christians and their willingness to adapt around the common citizen, and their affinity for the codex over the scroll was presented to me in two very different ways, both heavily capable Continue reading →

Both Larry Hurtado and Peter Brown take on the task of developing a historical look at the early Christian tradition; however, Hurtado focuses on the actual form of Christian literature, while Brown focuses more on the story of the church Continue reading →

Both Peter Brown and Larry Hurtado explore the same topic, just in different perspectives. Brown in his book, The World of Late Antiquity, explores the spread of Christianity in the fourth century as a whole, while Hurtado in his book, Continue reading →

Peter Brown and Larry Hurtado have both written pieces on the immersion of early Christianity in the Greco-Roman world. “The Conversion of Christianity, 300-363,” a chapter from Peter Brown’s The World of Late Antiquity, and “The Early Christian Preference for Continue reading →

Hurtado and Brown approach the presentation of Christian history in dramatically contrasting fashions. Brown tends to present his information with a chronological structure following the experiences of specific individuals. Hurtado, in contrast, presents his information with quantitative data to support Continue reading →

Both Peter Brown’s World of Late Antiquity and Larry Hurtado’s Earliest Christian Artifacts discuss the spread of the Christian church and its cultural influence on its people; However, there are many differences between the two writings, stylistically and subject matter-wise. In Peter Brown’s work, Continue reading →

Peter Brown’s and Larry Hurtado’s writings are both argumentative pieces on specific aspects of Christianity. With the exception of this similarity, their writings contain many distinct differences. In The World of Late Antiquity, Brown asserts that the spread of Christianity was Continue reading →