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Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture: Social and Literary Contexts for the New Testament

By Stanley E. Porter , Andrew W. Pitts

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2012
ISBN
9004234160, 9789004234161
ISSN
1574-7085
Google Books ID
Ts6ONz6oF0YC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3631727 bytes)
Series
Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 9; Early Christianity in Its Hellenistic Context 1
Pages
xii+751\765
Topic
Religion
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-05-03 19:51:49

Description

In "Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture," Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through the use of Greco-Roman materials and literary forms. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of how primitive Christianity situated itself in relation to evolving Hellenistic culture. Some essays focus on configuring the social context for the origins of the Jesus movement and beyond, while others assess the literary relation between early Christian and Greco-Roman texts.

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