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Early Christianity in Pompeian light : people, texts, situations / Bruce Longenecker, editor.

Contributor(s): Longenecker, Bruce W [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1451490100 (alk. paper); 9781451490107 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Church history -- 2nd century | Pompeii (Extinct city)Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-240) and indexes.
Contents:
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 -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-240) and indexes.

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.

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