- What is pozzolan, and what is it used for?
- What does homoousios mean? Why is it relevant to discussions about Christ?
- According to Maier, what is Eusebius’s main source for discussing the Apostles?
- Which of the apostles died first? Who precisely was James the Just? What role did he take in the Jerusalem Church? How and when did he die?
- Who was Simon Magus, and what kinds of troubles did he cause the early church?
- Who was Philo? Why is he important to the early church? Why is he usually called “Philo the Jew”?
- State briefly the attitudes of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero toward the early church? How did Nero exploit the Roman church?
- What are some of the practices of the early Egyptian ascetics as recorded by Philo? (Would we call them Gnostics? Why or why not?)
- How does Eusebius err in describing the martyrdoms of Peter and Paul?
- Other than Philo and Josephus and Acts, name two primary sources Eusebius draws on.