Author: Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664250140
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Describes the social setting of the early Christians, looks at the Greek and Roman ethical traditions, and explains the moral formation of the beginning Christian movement
Author: Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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F. Hock -- Paul's thorn and cultural models of affliction / Susan R. Garrett -- Light on Paul from the Testaments of the twelve patriarchs? / M. de Jonge -- God's new family in Thessalonica / Abraham J. Malherbe -- Parents and children in the letters of Paul / O. Larry Yarbrough -- Matthew and the spirit / Leander E. Keck -- The problem of perjury in Greek context : prolegomena to an exegesis of Matthew 5:33; 1 Timothy 1:10; and Didache 2.3 / John T. Fitzgerald -- The social world of James : literary analysis and historical reconstruction / Luke Timothy Johnson -- The footwashing in John 13:6-11 : transformation ritual or ceremony? / Jerome H. Neyrey -- Rich and poor, proud and humble in Luke-Acts / David L. Balch -- Visualizing the "real" world of Acts 16: toward construction of a social index / L. Michael.
Author: Everett Ferguson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815330684
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: John G. Gager
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Author: Philip F. Esler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134833806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Lynn Cohick
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 9781441207999
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family, religious community, and society in general. Cohick shows that although women during this period were active at all levels within their religious communities, their influence was not always identified by leadership titles nor did their gender always determine their level of participation. The book corrects our understanding of early Christian women by offering an authentic and descriptive historical picture of their lives. Includes black-and-white illustrations from the ancient world.
Author: John E. Stambaugh
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: Sabine R. Huebner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108470254
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Explores the socio-economic background of people in the New Testament using papyrological evidence from Roman Egypt.
Author: Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300098617
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Meeks analyzes the letters of Paul to see what kind of people joined the Christian groups in the urban centers and what it was like to be a Christian then.
Author: Philip F. Esler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134549199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1369
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Early Christian World presents an exhaustive, erudite and lavishly illustrated treatment of how the small movement which formed around Jesus in Galilee became the pre-eminent religion of the ancient world. The work begins by firmly situating early Christianity within its Mediterranean social, political and religious contexts, before charting the history of the first Christian centuries. The creation and perpetuation of Christian communities through various means, including mission and monasticism, is explored, as is the everyday experience of early Christians, through discussion of gender and sexuality, religious practice, communication and social structures. The intellectual (particularly theological) and artistic heritage of the period is fully considered, and a vivid picture painted of the internal and external challenges faced by early Christianity. The book concludes with profiles of the most notable figures of the age. Comprehensive and accessible, Early Christian World provides up-to-date coverage of the most important topics in the study of early Christianity, together with an invaluable collection of visual material. It will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying this period
