BIBST 702S:  PERSECUTION AND MARTYRDOM
IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY

Professor Darrell Doughty


Early Christian Documents

Tacitus on the Neronian Persecution
Pliny's Correspondance with Trajan
Hadrian's Rescript concerning Christians
Justin's First Apology
Letter of Antoninus Pius to Asia
Martyrdom of Justin and Friends
Martyrdom of Polycarp
Letter From the Martyrs of Lyons
The Scillitan Martyrs
Tertullian Apology
Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas
Martyrdom of Pionius
Life and Passion of Cyprian
Lactantius on the Great Persecution
Eusebius: The Great Persecution

Other Materials

Class Schedule
Bibliography

Notes on Tacitus and Nero
Notes on Domitian
Notes on Pliny and Trajan
Hadrian, Antionius Pius, Marcus Aurelius
Notes on Polycarp
Notes on Acts of Justin
Notes on Letter from Martyrs at Lyons
Robin Fox on Pionius
Great Persecution: Notes
G.E.M. de Ste. Croix,  Notes and Comments
Robin Fox on the Martyr Acts

Some Interesting Web Sites Relating to New Testament and Early Christianity

The Ecole Initiative: Early Christian Documents
Fathers of the Church - Documents
Early Church Fathers - Documents
The Whole Bible: New Testament
Westar Institute Jesus Seminar
Gospel of Thomas
Mithraism
Noncanonical Homepage
Darrell Doughty's Institute for Higher Critical Studies
Earl Doherty's Jesus Puzzle: Was There a Historical Jesus?


Darrell J. Doughty
Professor of New Testament
Drew University, Madison, NJ, 07940
ddoughty@drew.edu