Biblical Studies. The ECCLESIAE Project of the Universities of Bern and Bonn interviewed fifteen academics from around the world who specialise in understanding early Christianity in its historical context, to produce videos for the project’s Early Christian Centers YouTube channel. From the UK they interviewed Tom Holland, N.T. Wright and Peter Oakes. Peter’s interview is online here. He considers why Philippi was special and, more broadly, argues that ‘questions arising from the textual sources of the early Christ movement can only be adequately answered when they are embedded in the lived reality of people in the first century. Archaeological and epigraphic evidence opens up access to this world.’ The channel also includes a one-hour video, Christ and the Gods: How a Jewish Sect Swept the Cities of Rome.
