OLLI Workshop: History of the Middle East
Leader: Theo Pavlidis (t.pavlidis@ieee.org)
Handout No. 3 - October 8, 2012
Topic of the Third Meeting: The Rise of Christianity - Why Christianity Spread - Emperor Constantine - Imperial Christianity - Consequences (Background in: http://www.theopavlidis.com/MidEast/part15.htm) Bibliographical references: Gibbon [EG], Wright [Wr09], and Eisenman and Wise [EW92] from main Bibliography. Also Lawrence H. Schiffman, Who Was A Jew? Rabbinic and Halakhic Perspectives on the Jewish-Christian Schism, Ktav Publishing House, 1985.
Visuals for Third Meeting
| The Word for Messiah | ||
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| English | Hebrew | Greek |
| Anointed | משיח | Χριστος |
| (pronunciation) | mashiakh | Christos |
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Roman Empire in 336CE under Constantine the Great. |
| Source: http://hobbit.ict.griffith.edu.au/wiseman/Roman/19Maps.html#336 | |
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