Author: David L. Balch
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802839862
Size: 40.20 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Book Description: Much has been written about the Roman family unit, but relatively little about the early Christian period, comparing Roman, Jewish and Christian concepts of the family.

Author: Halvor Moxnes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134757441
Size: 69.50 MB
Format: PDF
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Book Description: The family is a topical issue for studies of the Ancient world. Family, household and kinship have different connotations in antiquity from their modern ones. This volume expands that discussion to investigate the early Christian family structures within the larger Graeco-Roman context. Particular emphasis is given to how family metaphors, such as 'brotherhood' function to describe relations in early Christian communities. Asceticism and the rejection of sexuality are considered in the context of Christian constructions of the family. Moxnes' volume presents a comprehensive and timely addition to the study of familial and social structures in the Early Christian world, which will certainly stimulate further debate.

Author: Carolyn Osiek
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664255466
Size: 80.88 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Book Description: What was the family like for the first Christians? Informed by archaeological work and illustrated by figures, this work is a remarkable window into the past, one that both informs and illuminates our current condition. The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious perspective and provides practical assistance for the family's revitalization.

Author: Susan E. Hylen
Publisher: Essentials of Biblical Studies
ISBN: 0190237570
Size: 14.73 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Book Description: Modern readers of the New Testament often notice its varying ideas about women. Some passages encouraged women to be submissive and remain silent. Yet in others, women characters owned property, headed households, or spoke with approval. Women in the New Testament World helps readers understand this conflicting evidence. It argues that social norms of the time encouraged traditional feminine virtues. However, as Susan Hylen argues, women in the culture enacted these virtues in a variety of ways, including active leadership in households, associations, and cities. In contrast to earlier approaches that divided the evidence into groups that either allowed or forbade women's leadership, this book points to a tension that was pervasive across different groups and regions of the Roman world. Society widely viewed women as inferior to men yet applauded their active pursuit of familial and civic interests. Thus, it was not the case that some women led while others were silent; instead, women were praised for modesty at the same time as they exerted influence in their communities. Elaborating on this rich historical background, Hylen illuminates new possibilities in New Testament texts.

Author: Laura Salah Nasrallah
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199699674
Size: 48.20 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Book Description: This study illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those to whom the apostle Paul wrote. It articulates a method for bringing together biblical texts with archaeological remains.

Author: John E. Stambaugh
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664250126
Size: 37.25 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Book Description: Reviews the history of the Near East

Author: Stephen Finlan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621896056
Size: 47.71 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Book Description: This revised edition of The Family Metaphor in Jesus' Teaching examines the family metaphors for God (Father) and for believers ("children," "brothers") that Jesus chose to use. Jesus not only held up a child as an example of receptivity, but he defended actual children, warning against despising "one of these little ones." Using current discussions of the "equal-regard family" and of the importance of "human fathering," Stephen Finlan explores how the gospel entails a changed model of parenting and of marriage and a new approach to spiritual growth.

Author: Beryl Rawson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781444390759
Size: 14.10 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Book Description: A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families. Provides up-to-date research on family structure from archaeology, art, social, cultural, and economic history Includes contributions from established and rising international scholars Features illustrations of families, children, slaves, and ritual life, along with maps and diagrams of sites and dwellings Honorable Mention for 2011 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers

Author: Gillian Vallance Mackie
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802035042
Size: 52.83 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Book Description: Gillian Mackie examines the decorative schemes, now often the only way to determine the function, patronage, and meaning of the building, of surviving early medieval chapels built in Italy and Istria from AD312-740.

Author: Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826466884
Size: 68.96 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Book Description: The eleventh volume in this series examines New Testament Apocryphal texts, including the Acts of Paul and Thecla, the Acts of John, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Peter, the Martyrdom of Perpetua, the Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, the Acts of Andrew, the Acts of Thomas, and the Apocalypse of Peter, as well as Joseph and Asenath, the Irish apocrypha, and the Greek novels. In this diverse collection the contributors utilize a variety of approaches to explore topics such as the construction of Christian identity, the Christian martyr, heterodoxy and orthodoxy, conjugal ethics and apostolic homewreckers, trials and temptations, the rhetoric of the body, asceticism, and eroticism.