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- ↑ See UCLA's Center for the Study of Religion's Website
- ↑ Constance Dillon, "Finding Religious Identity on Campus," The Daily Bruin, April 6, 2007.
- ↑ See the personal interview of Scott Bartchy conducted by Keith Giles.
- ↑ Robert O. Fife, "Westwood Christian Foundation," The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2004), 771-2.
- ↑ See a list of classes offered by Bartchy on the UCLA website, with links to syllabi.
- ↑ See program description on UCLA's Department of History website.
- ↑ Jenae Cohn, "Double Lives," The Daily Bruin, May 16, 2007
- ↑ Kent Black, "Off the Grid," LA Times Magazine, September 25, 2005.
- ↑ Sophia Whang, "Living with Energy," The Daily Bruin, May 30, 2002.
- ↑ MALLON CHRESAI: First Century Slavery and the Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7:21. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series No. 11. Scholars Press, University of Montana, 1973. (199 pp.) Reprinted by Scholars Press, 1985. Reprinted by Wipf & Stock, 2003.
- ↑ MALLON CHRESAI, p. 183.
- ↑ "Undermining Ancient Patriarchy: The Apostle Paul's Vision of a Society of Siblings." Biblical Theology Bulletin 29 (1999): 68-78.
- ↑ "Who Should Be Called Father? Paul of Tarsus between the Jesus Tradition and Patria Potestas," Biblical Theology Bulletin 33 (2003), Pp. 135-47.
