The Myth of Persecution

I've read about the myth of Christian persecution in books by my current NT interest Bart D. Ehrman, so I was pumped when this came out. First person at our library to snag it. Ahem, pardon me. I was excited.

And this was an interesting little read, although not nearly as academic as I'd hoped. I feel like Ms Moss simplified things a bit too much for the public. There isn't enough defining of the various branches of ancient Christianity, and there's not many in depth discussions of beliefs or even the topic itself. There is some interesting history and what I would call high school levels of discussion of the topic. But I wanted more to chew on than what I got. And even though I sympathize with her more liberal worldview, I wasn't interested in hearing her talk about it through the entire book. One final chapter sufficed. Essentially what I wanted was some hardcore historical discussion, but I got a brief overview.

Still, the book was informative, and maybe now I can check out her bib and hunt down some other things on the same topic.