Features articles and pictures by Dr. James Tabor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; an interesting example of the relevance of ancient cults to understanding current events, by a partipant in the negotiations preceding the Waco Massacre.
http://www.uncc.edu/jdtabor/
These pages are intended as a resource for serious, scholarly studies of the social world of the early Christian writings.
http://www.torreys.org/bible/biblia03.html