Where the precious secret of how to die before you die was practiced by the first generations of Christians, the so-called paleo-Christians, and later suppressed by the growing bureaucracy of a faith that chose to deny its Greek heritage. Ruck knows that, of course. Raised Catholic, he has been researching the origins of Christianity his entire career and writing about it since the early 2000s. The evidence at Emporion doesn’t just implicate the Ancient Greeks. It implicates their Phocaean sister city in Velia. And by a documented line of succession that we will explore, it implicates Rome.
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