Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology and Ra my guest today is Dr. Nadia Williams who has a PhD in classics from Princeton University.

She's also the author of this excellent book that we talk about in this podcast episode called Cultural Christians in the early

church. She's also just finished a book that's going to come out next fall

called Mother's Children and the Body Politic Ancient Christianity and the recovery of human dignity.

She's a book review editor for Current where she also edits the arena blog.

I really enjoyed this conversation as you will see very clearly Nautia is incredibly brilliant and extremely well versed in all

things related to Greco-Roman society which is where we go in this conversation we kind of go all over the

map so if you love history if you love history, if you love

record Roman history in particular, you will, I think, very much enjoy this

fascinating conversation. So please welcome the show for the first time, the

one or only Nadia Williams. Zadia, thanks so much for being on Theology and Ra.

I'm very, very excited about this conversation.

I get sent a lot of books, okay?

People are like, you know, you know, they want me to probably promote it on the

podcast. Most of the time, I mean I love to read, I wish I could read them all.

Seriously, there's so many good books that come across my desk, but I'm just like I just don't have time for that.

So yours came across probably a couple months ago. It's called a cultural Christians in the early church and I,

first of all the cover killed it. So I was like, oh, this was interesting.

You got the chariot with the W. W. J. D. License play on it. It's brilliant. I picked it up and I couldn't put it down and that's usually I just like, you know, I might crack a book real quick and then like put it down this one I was like I think I

sat there and read like two chapters straight I was like this is really interesting

so anyway thank you for being on the ultra on audio that was a long introduction

thank you so much for having me it's a a thrill. So you're, tell us about your background. You have a background in classics.

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