Review of Charles Freeman’s “New” History of Early Christianity

Over at RBL is the longest and probably the most critical review I’ve even written.  It is Charles Freeman, A New History of Early Christianity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009). Freeman is a general historian and not a church historian and he makes a few interesting points. Otherwise he piggy backs some of the same mantras and says some peculiar things like his explanation of the origin of the resurrection.