Paul L. Maier

PREFACEO OME of the most extraordinary, colorful, and tragic events in all of history shook Rome in the score of years following a.d. 47. Claudius and then Nero ruled over that volatile blend of idealism, sensuality, and cruelty which was the Roman Empire. Into such an unlikely setting Christianity...

FOREWORD 'i' I by Hank Hanegraaff WHEN MEL GIBSON produced The Passion of the Christ—a movie that substantially follows the contours of the New Testament accoimts of | ¦ Jesus' death—^he became the immediate subject ,! f ; of controversy. Leon Wieseltier, the literary • editor of...