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Christ Child : cultural memories of a young Jesus /
Little is known about the early childhood of Jesus Christ. But in the decades after his death, stories began circulating about his origins. How would early readers have made sense of this young Jesus? In this highly innovative book, Stephen Davis draws on current theories about how human communities...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven [Connecticut] ; London [England] :
Yale University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Synkrisis : Comparative Approaches to Early Christianity in Greco-Roman Culture
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Little is known about the early childhood of Jesus Christ. But in the decades after his death, stories began circulating about his origins. How would early readers have made sense of this young Jesus? In this highly innovative book, Stephen Davis draws on current theories about how human communities construe the past to answer this question. He explores how ancient readers would have used texts, images, places, and other key reference points from their own social world to understand the Christ child's curious actions. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (429 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300206609 0300206607 1306715253 9781306715256 030014945X 9780300149456 |