How Christian was Fourth Century Egypt? Onomastic Perspectives on Conversion.
In 1982 Roger Bagnall published a ground-breaking article about conversion to Christi-anity in fourth century Egypt. Using onomastic data for individuals in seleced texts, he tried to demonstrate that the growth of the Christian element in the population was early and rapid, rising to 90% by the end...
| Publicado en: | Vigiliae Christianae Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 407 - 436 |
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