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Impulsore Chresto. Opposition to Christianity in the Roman Empire, c. 50-250 AD . By Engberg Jakob (trans. Gregory Carter). (Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity, 2.) Pp. 351. Frankfurt-am-Main : Peter Lang , 2007. £34.30 (paper). 978 3 631 56778 4; 1862 197X
In this translated version of a doctoral dissertation originally written in Danish at the University of Southern Denmark, Jakob Engberg looks again at the much discussed subject of the persecution of the early Christians, concentrating on the period running from ad 50 to 250. Christians, according to Engberg, were rarely the object of imperially motivated persecution (the so-called Trajanic and Hadrianic rescripts had very little influence upon the way in which Christians were treated, and...