Doing Things with Words in the First Christian Century

by F. Gerald Downing

Although its religious heritage was that of a variegated Judaism, the tiny early Christian movement was nevertheless much more complexly and richly linked with the Graeco-Roman world in which it came to birth than is usually allowed for. In particular, 'ordinary' people were capable of a sophisticated use of words that can be detected also in the New Testament writings. But the use of words in Graeco-Roman times was often very different from what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841271519
• ISBN13: 9781841271514
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: T & T Clark International
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"