Roman domestic art and early house churches
By: David L. Balch
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 228
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9783161493836
Description: Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome have yielded hundreds of wall paintings from domestic buildings. Greek myths and tragedies, especial by Euripides were visually represented. Balch presents an interdisciplinary study inquiring what earliest Jews and Christian in such houses might have been seeing as they read and interpreted scripture and performed core rituals, especially the Eucharist. This recent study of Roman domestic architecture suggests new perspectives on the social history of early Christianity.--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([p.243]-267) and index.