A History of Rome through the Fifth Century
Author: A.H.M. Jones
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1968-06-18
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 134900250X
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A.H.M. Jones and the Later Roman Empire
Author: David Gwynn
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-01-31
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9047432312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe appearance in 1964 of A.H.M. Jones’ The Later Roman Empire 284–602: A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey transformed the study of the Late Antique world. In this volume a number of leading scholars reassess the impact of Jones’ great work, the influences that shaped his scholarship, and the legacy he left for later generations. Jones’ historical method, his fundamental knowledge of Late Roman political, social, economic and religious structures, and his famous assessment of the Decline and Fall of Rome are re-examined here in the light of modern research. This volume offers a valuable aid to academics and students alike who seek to better understand and exploit the priceless resource that is the Later Roman Empire. Contributors are Averil Cameron, Peter Garnsey, David Gwynn, Peter Heather, Caroline Humfress, Luke Lavan, Wolfgang Liebeschuetz, Stefan Rebenich, Alexander Sarantis, Roger Tomlin, Bryan Ward-Perkins, and Michael Whitby.
History of Rome Through the Fifth Century
Author: A.H.M. Jones
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1970-06-18
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 134900491X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding Collapse
Author: Guy D. Middleton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-26
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 110715149X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.
Medieval Culture and Society
Author: David Herlihy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1968-06-18
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1349000094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Testament Cities in Western Asia Minor
Author: Edwin M. Yamauchi
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2003-04-29
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1592442307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery student of the letters of Paul, the Acts of the Apostles, and the Book of Revelation will find much of value in 'New Testament Cities in Western Asia Minor',Ó writes W. Ward Gasque. The author investigates the status of the archaeological information which we now have about key cities of western Asia Minor during the early Roman EmpireÓ: Assos, Pergamum, Thyateira, Smyrna, Sardis, Philadelphia, Ephesus, Miletus, Didyma, Laodicea, Hierapolis, and Colossae.
The Book of Acts and Paul in Roman Custody
Author: Brian Rapske
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2004-09-24
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780802829122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides a unique opportunity not only to learn about the custodial system of the Graeco-Roman world, but to better view Paul's persona and Christian mission as well. Brian Rapske's outstanding study shows Luke himself to be an ardent helper of Paul the missionary prisoner. "The author has produced an invaluable resource for both Acts and Pauline scholars, having placed the prison narratives of Paul in both their cultural and literary settings. The footnotes alone demonstrate the wealth of socio-cultural knowledge that Rapske brings to his reading of the Acts account as well as his understanding of the Pauline missions via- -vis his suffering in prison." - Journal for the Study of the New Testament
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire
Author: Edward Luttwak
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780801821585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1976, a book which looks at the success of the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 3rd century A.D. and attributes this success to the imperial military strategy.
Early Classical Authors on Jesus
Author: Margaret H. Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-10-20
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0567683168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMargaret H. Williams examines how classical writers saw and portrayed Jesus, engaging with the fact that as the originator of a new (and still existing) world religion, Jesus of Nazareth, otherwise known as Christus (Christ), is an individual of indisputable historical significance. Williams shows how from the outset Jesus was a controversial figure. Contemporary Jews in the Roman province of Judaea tended either to adore or to abhor him. When indue course his fame spread throughout the wider Roman empire, reactions to him there among both Jews and non-Jews were no less divergent. Each of the early classical writers who makes mention of him, the historian Tacitus, the biographer Suetonius, the epistolographer Pliny and the satirist Lucian, takes a different view of him and presents him in a different way. Williams considers these different depictions and questions why these writers had such differing views of Jesus. To answer this question Williams examines not only to the different literary conventions by which each of these writers was bound but also to the social, cultural and religious contexts in which they operated.
Paul's Declaration of Freedom from a Freed Slave's Perspective
Author: Robin G. Thompson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-03-27
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9004532617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis project attempts to listen to voices that have seldom been heard. While others have explored Paul’s theology of Christian freedom, they have not considered how Paul’s declaration of freedom would have been received by those who most desired and valued freedom: the slaves and freedpersons in the Galatian churches. In this study, Robin Thompson explores both Greek and Roman manumission, considers how the ancient Mediterranean world conceived of freedom, and then examines the freedom declared in Galatians from a freed slaves’s perspective. She proposes that these freedpersons would likely have perceived this freedom to be not only spiritual freedom, but—at least in the Christian communities—individual freedom as well.
