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Cavan W. Concannon

Cavan W. Concannon

Associate Professor of Religion, University of Southern California
Dr. Cavan W. Concannon is associate professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author of ‘When You Were Gentiles’: Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul’s Corinthian Correspondence (Yale 2014), Assembling Early Christianity: Trade, Networks, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth (Cambridge 2017), and (with Lindsey Mazurek) Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean (Routledge 2016). He is the co-director of the Ostia Connectivity Project.

How the gladiators inspired evangelicals’ sense of persecution

Nov 28, 2024 00:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

With the release of Ridley Scotts Gladiator II, audiences will be plunged back into the cinematic excitement of the Roman amphitheater so vividly captured in its predecessor, Gladiator. Scotts film will undoubtedly...

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