Beschreibung:
Philip Walker Jacobs teaches art history at Newberry College, South Carolina. He is the author of Joseph the Carpenter: His Reception in Literature and Art from the Second to the Ninth Century (2016).
This book is a comprehensive reference guide and outline of Greco-Roman and Jewish and Christian history and literature for the period between 200 BCE and 260 CE. The author examines generations of scholarship in classical, biblical, historical, and religious studies.