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

By: Stanley E. Porter

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004234160
• ISBN13: 9789004234161
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 764 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"