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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... urban filth and dung”; Edmund Burke, in eighteenth-century London, called them “the swinish multitude”; and in between, this loathing of “the meaner sort” was almost universal among the privileged. When the discipline called “history ...
... urban households and country villas of the elite were staffed by more domestic slaves, the more educated of whom served as tutors, readers, and managers. There were a very few people in between who served as agents or clients of the ...
... urban elite in honor of Caesar might be the only occasion on which the urban poor ever tasted meat. The plebian citizens of Rome itself (but not resident aliens and other des- titute people), of course, enjoyed the bread and circuses ...
... urban elite and some of those who served them . Most males of the aris- tocracy could read , although they often had slaves read to them and write letters and other documents for them . Decrees and honorific statements in honor of ...
... urban practices onto the synagogue in Nazareth in its portrayal of Jesus opening a scroll of Isaiah and reading from it. Peasants would have known of the existence of the scripture, since it was deposited in the Temple and supposedly ...