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Short Answer Writing Assignment
In one word document (double spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman Font), please answer the following questions:
1. Pick one of the chapters from Acts that I assigned and do a close reading of that chapter. Your close reading should aim 1) to briefly describe the content of your chapter, 2) to consider how that content contributes to our understanding of the very early history of the Christian Church, and 3) to remark on how particular words, phrases, images, or ideas create an argument about the nature of the development of the church. Make sure to use specific quotations to both support and deepen your reading. Aim to answer in 2-3 paragraphs.
2. What do you learn from "The Letters Between Trajan and Pliny" about how the Roman Empire dealt with Christians in the 2nd century? Make sure to make reference to specific passages from the letters. Aim to answer in 1-2 paragraphs.
3. Who wrote the Passion of SS Perpetua and Felicitas? What makes this a complicated question? Aim to answer in 1-2 paragraphs.
4. What do you learn about the persecution of Christians at the beginning of the third century from the Passion of SS Perpetua and Felicitas? How might what you learn contradict the sense of how Romans dealt with Christians that you gained from reading the letters between Emperor Trajan and Pliny? Aim to answer in 2-3 paragraphs.
5. Develop an argument about a tension, puzzle, or contradiction that you locate inThe Passion of SS. Perpetua and Felicitasaround the issue of the body. Aim to answer in 1-2 pages