The Crosses of Pompeii : Jesus-Devotion in a Vesuvian Town /

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The eruption that destroyed Pompeii in 79 preserved a wealth of evidence about the town, buried for centuries in volcanic ash. Since the town's excavations in the eighteenth century, archaeologists have disputed the evidence that might attest the presence of Christians in Pompeii before the eru...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Longenecker, Bruce W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Christian antiquities > Italy > Pompeii (Extinct city)
Christianity > Italy > Pompeii (Extinct city)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • part I. Introduction
  • Questions and answers
  • In advance
  • part II. Setting up
  • The starting point
  • The debate
  • The cross in early Christianity and beyond
  • The perpendicular equilateral
  • part III. The primary evidence
  • Jesus-devotion in relief
  • Jesus-devotion in the insula
  • Jesus-devotion
  • Jesus-devotion in the letters
  • Jesus-devotion and the inn
  • Jesus-devotion in transactions
  • part IV. The supplemental evidence
  • Crossing the street
  • Jesus-devotion in the streets
  • part V. And so
  • Belief and skepticism
  • Here and beyond.

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