RELC 8729
Bible, Culture, and Ritual in the Eastern Roman Empire
Course Description
The Bible played a deeply formative role in shaping the culture of the later Roman Empire, particularly in the Eastern regions, where Christianity had initially spread much more widely and more rapidly than in the West. This seminar will examine, through a close reading of a wide variety of texts in English translation, the various ways that the Bible was woven into the fabric of the later Roman and Byzantine empires.