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Author: James S. Jeffers
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 1999-10-07
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780830815890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames S. Jeffers provides an informative tour of the various facets of the Roman world--class and status, family and community, work and leisure, religion and organization, city and country, law and government, death and taxes, and the events of Roman history.
Author: Moyer V. Hubbard
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1441237097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBackground becomes foreground in Moyer Hubbard's creative introduction to the social and historical setting for the letters of the Apostle Paul to churches in Asia Minor and Europe. Hubbard begins each major section with a brief narrative featuring a fictional character in one of the great cities of that era. Then he elaborates on various aspects of the cultural setting related to each particular vignette, discussing the implications of those venues for understanding Paul's letters and applying their message to our lives today. Addressing a wide array of cultural and traditional issues, Hubbard discusses: • religion and superstition • education, philosophy, and oratory • urban society • households and family life in the Greco-Roman world This work is based on the premise that the better one understands the historical and social context in which the New Testament (and Paul's letters) was written, the better one will understand the writings of the New Testament themselves. Passages become clearer, metaphors deciphered, and images sharpened. Teachers, students, and laypeople alike will appreciate Hubbard's unique, illuminating, and well-researched approach to the world of the early church.
Author: J. Julius Jr. Scott
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2000-08-01
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1585583014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis survey of intertestamental Judaism illuminates the customs and controversies that provide essential background for understanding the New Testament. Scott opens a door into the Jewish world and literature leading up to the development of Christianity. He also offers an accessible overview of the data through helpful charts, maps, and diagrams incorporated throughout the text to engage his readers.
Author: Lynn Cohick
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1441207996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLynn 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: Susan R. Holman
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2008-06
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 080103549X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn ecumenical roster of leading specialists approach wealth and poverty through the theology, social practices, and institutions of early Christianity.
Author: Everett Ferguson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9780802822215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.
Author: James S. Jeffers
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtilizing archeological evidence and an analysis of two earlyChristian texts related to the church at Rome, James S. Jeffers offersa penetrating glimpse into the economic, social, and theologicaltensions of early Roman Christianity. Clement and the Shepherd ofHermas are shown to represent two decidedly conflicting conceptions ofChristianity and hierarchy: Clement represents the social elite and amore structured approach to church organization, and Hermas displays atendency toward sectarianism. Photographs and line drawings illustratearcheological evidence.
Author: John E. Stambaugh
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780664250126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReviews the history of the Near East
Author: Ethelbert Stauffer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2008-06-01
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1725221802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Yuliya Minets
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-12-09
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 1108987745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the story of the transformation of the ways in which the increasingly Christianized elites of the late antique Mediterranean experienced and conceptualized linguistic differences. The metaphor of Babel stands for the magnificent edifice of classical culture that was about to reach the sky, but remained self-sufficient and self-contained in its virtual monolingualism – the paradigm within which even Latin was occasionally considered just a dialect of Greek. The gradual erosion of this vision is the slow fall of Babel that took place in the hearts and minds of a good number of early Christian writers and intellectuals who represented various languages and literary traditions. This step-by-step process included the discovery and internalization of the existence of multiple other languages in the world, as well as subsequent attempts to incorporate their speakers meaningfully into the holistic and distinctly Christian picture of the universe.
