Christian OriginsFortress Press, 1 de mar. de 2010 - 336 páginas Dealing with a time when "Christians" were moving towards separation from the movement's Jewish origins, this inaugural volume of A People's History of Christianity tells "the people's story" by gathering together evidence from the New Testament texts, archaeology, and other contemporary sources. Of particular interest to the distinguished group of scholar-contributors are the often overlooked aspects of the earliest "Christian" consciousness: How, for example, did they manage to negotiate allegiances to two social groups? How did they deal with crucial issues of wealth and poverty? What about the participation of slaves and women in these communities? How did living in the shadow of the Roman Empire color their religious experience and economic values? |
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... Empire: Initial Explorations (Trinity Press International, 2001); Pontius Pilate: Por- traits of a Roman Governor (Liturgical, 2003). Currently in press is The New Testament and Negotiating the Roman World: An Essential Guide (Abingdon ...
... Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Reve- lation in the Ruins (Oxford, 2001), and Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia, and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Family, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 116 (Brill, 1993). William ...
... Roman Empire . Local peasants , descendants of ancient Israelites , found themselves immersed in a profound and deepening , multidimensional crisis . Perhaps in near desperation , and looking for hope or focus or meaning or inspiration ...
... imperial elite and their aristocracies in the provinces and cities of the Roman Empire, such as Galilee and Judea or Antioch and Corinth. Once we recognize that the communities and movements associated with New Testament literature had ...
... Roman Senate as king of the Judeans (40–4 bcE). Herod, in turn, kept intact the Jerusalem temple-state, headed by a ... Empire in the sixth century bcE. It served several purposes simultaneously: it institu- tionalized an indigenous people's ...