New College, University of Edinburgh

The endurance of the Sanhedrin . . .

(by Helen Bond). Reading through a few student essays recently (not from Edinburgh, I’d like to point out!), I was surprised by how many simply assume the presence of a […]

  • CSCO Team,
  • 16th August 2010

Books and Readers in Early Christianity

(Larry Hurtado):  In the unceasing flow of publications on early Christianity, important works often get overlooked or too quickly slip from sight.  So, here’s a reminder/pointer to a book that […]

  • CSCO Team,
  • 5th August 2010

SNTS in Berlin

(Helen Bond) I’m busily getting all my papers in order today for the meeting of the SNTS in Berlin next week. (Technically it stands for Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, but […]

  • CSCO Team,
  • 22nd July 2010

Patristics and Christian Origins

[Sara Parvis writes]  A few thoughts on the interface between New Testament studies and Patristics.  All of us in CSCO are (perhaps more by accident than by design, perhaps not) […]

  • CSCO Team,
  • 20th July 2010

Josephus on Herod the Great

(Helen Bond) Larry’s post showed that one of the things we are interested in at the Centre for Christian Origins (CSCO) is what’s often called the ‘world of the NT’ […]

  • CSCO Team,
  • 19th July 2010

What is “Christian Origins”?

(Larry Hurtado):  As the founding director of CSCO I’ll offer my take on what “Christian Origins” means (at least here), for those who may be wondering what the expression signifies, […]

  • CSCO Team,
  • 18th July 2010

Pilate and biblical baddies

(Helen Bond) Welcome to our new CSCO website! As the previous posting notes, we’re all going to take it in turns to introduce ourselves and our research over the next […]

  • CSCO Team,
  • 16th July 2010