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Early Christianity in Pompeiian light : people, texts, situations /

Scholars of early Christianity are awakening to the potential of Pompeii's treasures for casting light on the settings and situations that were commonplace and conventional for the first urban Christians. The uncovered world of Pompeii, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., al...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Longenecker, Bruce W. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I. Envisioning situations. Growing up female in the Pauline churches : what did she do all day? / Carolyn Osiek
  • Nine types of church in nine types of space in the Insula of the Menander / Peter Oakes
  • The empress, the goddess, and the earthquake : atmospheric conditions pertaining to Jesus-devotion in Pompeii / Bruce W. Longenecker
  • PART II. Enhancing texts. Powers and protection in Pompeii and Paul : the apotropaic function of the cross in the Letter to the Galatians / Natalie R. Webb
  • Violence in Pompeian/Roman domestic art as a visual context for Pauline and Deutero-Pauline letters / David L. Balch
  • Spheres and trajectories : the angels of the churches (Revelation 1-3) in context / Jeremiah N. Bailey.