The Cross before Constantine Ruth Gaulke Designed to bring the reader

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Experimental offers a fresh look at authors who are often treated as constituting a center or origin point of an experimental literary tradition in the United States

The Cross before Constantine Ruth Gaulke Designed to bring the readerThis book brings together, for the first time, the relevant material evidence demonstrating Christian use of the cross prior to Constantine. Bruce W. Longenecker upends a longstanding consensus that the cross was not a Christian symbol until Constantine appropriated it to consolidate his power in the fourth century. Longenecker presents a wide variety of artifacts from across the Mediterranean basin that testify to the use of the cross as a visual