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Author: Philip F. Esler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1134833806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Philip F. Esler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1134833814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Philip F. Esler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 1369
ISBN-13: 1134549199
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Author: Lynn Cohick
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1441207996
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Edwin A. Judge
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1441241795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a collection of pivotal essays by E. A. Judge, who initiated many important discussions in the establishment of social scientific criticism of the Bible. What is it that made the work of Judge in 1960 and in subsequent years so important? Judge was the first in scholarship after the mid-twentieth century to clarify early Christian ideals about society by defining what the social institutions of the broader cultural context were and how they influenced the social institutions of the early Christian communities. Judge points out that earlier scholars had entered into this field of inquiry, but that, in general, they failed due to the lack of careful definitions of the Greco-Roman social institutions at the time based on a thorough use of the primary sources. Thus, Judge was the "new founder" ( a turning point in scholarship) of what came to be called social-scientific criticism of the New Testament. Social-scientific criticism is the term in scholarship that refers to the use of social realities (e.g. institutions, class, factors of community organization) in the critical study of literary sources available (this is an advance over "merely" literary and traditional historical questions).
Author: Philip Francis Esler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 0415164974
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Early Christian World, volumes 1 and 2, presents an exhaustive, erudite and illustrated treatment of how the small movement which formed around Jesus in Galilee became the pre-eminent religion of the ancient world.
Author: Everett Ferguson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780815330684
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Steve Walton
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0802874517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings. The book's contributors first look at how the urban physical, cultural, and social environments of the ancient Mediterranean basin affected the ways in which early Christianity progressed. They then turn to how the earliest Christians thought and theologized in their engagement with cities. With a rich variety of expertise and scholarship, The Urban World and the First Christians is an important contribution to the understanding of early Christianity.
Author: Gerd Theissen
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Theissen inquires into the correlation between the theological and ethical convictions of the first Christians as well as the social realities of the world in which they lived. He expands the form-critical inquiry into the Sitz im Leben of early Christian texts to ask about the significance of early Christian convictions in society.
