The First Christian Centuries
Subtitle: Perspectives on the Early Church
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780830826773
Subjects: Roman; Religion; Church history; Religion - Church History; Rome; Christianity - History - General; Christianity and other religions; Christianity and other religio; Primitive and early church, ca; Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
First sentence: Almost everything known about the first century of the Christian church comes from what was written about it: virtually no direct physical evidence survives, although Sawicki's Crossing Galilee demonstrates that much can be learnt about Jesus, his followers and their aims from the first-century archaeology of the Holy Land.