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C lifford A ndo is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. He has recently published a book on religion in the Roman Empire, The Matter of the Gods (University of California Press, 2008), and is now working on a study of law and cultural change, to be published under the title The Ambitions of Government. O lof B randt is Secretary of the Istituto Pontificio di Archeologia Cristiana in Rome, and Assistant to the Chair of Early Christian Architecture at the same institute. He has excavated the early Christian baptistery of the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina in Rome, and is currently working on a new archaeological analysis of the Lateran baptistery. P hilip B urton is Lecturer in New Testament Studies and Biblical Languages in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Old Latin Gospels: A Study of Their Texts and Language (Oxford University Press, 2000), of Language in the Confessions of Augustine (Oxford University Press, 2007), and has translated Augustine's Confessions (Everyman, 2001). He is currently working on an edition of the Old Latin traditions of the Gospel according to John. D aniel F. C aner is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Classics at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is the author of Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of ... log in or subscribe to read full text