Background
Son of Leonard Hendrik and Jacoba (Valstar) Rutgers, Mr. Rutgers was born on January 4, 1964, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
(This slim volume is both an illustrated guide to catacomb...)
This slim volume is both an illustrated guide to catacomb archaeology, from Antonio Bosio in the 16th century to Giovanni Battista de Rossi in the 19th century, and more recent excavators; and a discussion of the original function of the catacombs, as a response to the 2nd-century preference for inhumation burial with all the problems of space this created. Inscriptions, sarcophagus reliefs, wall paintings and sculpture are all included along with practical details for visitors.
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(Were the Jews who appear so abundantly in the writings of...)
Were the Jews who appear so abundantly in the writings of the early Church real or were they figments of the imagination? In this new book, Leonard Rutgers argues that they were both. Exploring Jewish-Christian interaction in Late Antiquity in the form of three case studies, Rutgers shows that early Christian ideas about Jews and Judaism not only played a determining role in the ideologies that shaped early Christian identity formation; they also had a tendency to spill over into the real world.
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Son of Leonard Hendrik and Jacoba (Valstar) Rutgers, Mr. Rutgers was born on January 4, 1964, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In 1988 Leonard Victor Rutgers received Master of Arts degree in Classical Archaeology from Free University Amsterdam (VU University Amsterdam). In 1993 he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Religion, finishing Duke University.
Mr. Rutgers was a research fellow of Royal Netherlands Academy Arts and Sciences University Utrecht, Netherlands, from 1994 to 1999. Between 1995 and 1999 Leonard Victor Rutgers served as a director of Rome Jewish Catacomb Project. Since 2006 he was a professor of late antiquity at Institute of History, Utrecht, Netherlands. He became a staff member of Sepphoris Excavations, Israel, since 1994.
(This slim volume is both an illustrated guide to catacomb...)
(Were the Jews who appear so abundantly in the writings of...)