The first Christians in the Roman world
Subtitle: Augustan and New Testament essays
By: E. A. Judge ; edited by James R. Harrison.
Contributors: Harrison, James R., 1952-
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 229; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 229.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 786
ISBN-13: 9783161493102
Subjects: Augustus, -- Emperor of Rome, -- 63 B.C.-14 A.D.; Bible. -- N.T. -- History of contemporary events.; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.; Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
Notes: Collection of previously published essays and lectures.

"Collected papers of E.A. Judge": p. [733]-737.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The private sources of force in Roman politics; title: The Roman theory of historical degeneration; title: Contemptu famae contemni virtutes : on the morality of self-advertisement among the Romans; title: The literature of Roman political self-advertisement; title: Roman literary memorials; title: Veni. Vidi. Vici, and the inscription of Cornelius Gaius; title: The period of Augustus and the Julio-Claudians; title: Caesar and Augustus; title: Causar's son and heir; title: The "settlements' of Augustus : a constitutional reform?; title: The real basis of Augustan power; title: Augustus and the Roman nobility; title: The Augustan republic : Tiberius and Claudius on Roman history; title: "Res publica restituta" : a modern illusion?; title: The eulogistic inscriptions of the Augustan forum : Augustus on Roman history; title: Augustus in the Res gestae; title: On judging the merits of Augustus; title: The second thoughts of Syme on Augustus; title: The regional kanōn for requisitioned transport; title: A woman's behaviour; title: Ethical terms in St. Paul and the inscriptions of Ephesus; title: Setting the record straight : alternative documents of a protest in the Roman army in Egypt; title: What kind of ruler did the Greeks think Augustus was?; title: "We have no king but Caesar" : when was Caesar first seen as a king?; title: Was Christianity a religion?; title: First impressions of St. Paul; title: "Signs of the times" : the role of the portentous in classical and apostolic narrative; title: The mark of the Beast, Revelation 13:16; title: The gentile response to Judaism in the first century; title: Judaism and the rise of Christianity : a Roman perspective; title: The origin of the church at Rome : a new solution?; title: The decrees of Caesar at Thessalonica; title: Christliche Gruppen in nichchristlicher Gesellschaft : die Sozialstruktur christlicher Gruppen im ersten Jahrhundert; title: The early Christians as a scholastic community; title: The Roman base of Paul's mission; title: Demythologising the church : what is the meaning of "the body of Christ"?; title: Contemporary political models for the interrelations of the New Testament churches; title: Did the churches compete with cult-groups?; title: "On this rock I will build my ekklēsia" : counter-cultic springs of multiculturalism; title: St. Paul and Socrates; title: The appeal to convention in St. Paul; title: The conflict of educational aims in the New Testament; title: The reaction against classical education in the New Testament; title: The biblical shape of modern culture.