The Lord's Prayer through North African Eyes: A Window into Early Christianity
"The Lord's Prayer Through North African Eyes is an original and important contribution to schlaroship on early Christian prayer. Brown's thorough reconstruction of the social context of early Christian teachers like Clement of Alexandria and Tertullian of Carthage, as well as of their distinct appreciations of the Lord's Prayer, is a model of scholarly precision and imagination." - LukeTimothy Johnson, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Emory University. (Luke Timothy Johnson)"Michael Brown is one of the most creative scholars of early Christian studies around. His book opens new and profound perspectives on the most famous Christian prayer." (Adela Yarbro Collins, Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Yale University Divinity School)“Michael Brown is one of the most creative scholars of early Christian studies around. His book The Lord’s Prayer through North African Eyes opens new and profound perspectives on the most famous Christian prayer.” –Adela Yarbro Colling, Yale University Divinity School“The Lord’s Prayer Through North African Eyes is an original an important contribution to scholarship on early Christian prayer. Brown’s thorough reconstruction of the social context of early Christian teachers like Clement of Alexandria and Tertullian of Carthage as well as of their distinct appreciation of the Lord’s Prayer is a model of scholarly precision and imagination.” –Luke Timothy Johnson, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Emory University“Exceptional!” –Today’s Books, May 2005 (Today's Books)"This laudable effort shows how complicated anddifficult some contextualizing can be...Brown provides such extensive backgroundmaterial." —The Catholic BiblicalQuarterly(Catholic Biblical Quarterly)