Christian origins and greco-roman culture
Subtitle: social and literary contexts for the New Testament
By: edited by Stanley E. Porter, Andrew W. Pitts
Series: Text and editions for New Testament study -- v. 9; Early Christianity in its hellenistic context -- v. 1
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 764
ISBN-13: 9789004234161; 9789004236219
Subjects: Origin; Civilization; Church history; Christianity and culture; History; Christianity
Other titles: Brill e-books.
Description: "In Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture, Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through the use of Greco-Roman materials and literary forms. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of how primitive Christianity situated itself in relation to evolving Hellenistic culture. Some essays focus on configuring the social context for the origins of the Jesus movement and beyond, while others assess the literary relation between early Christian and Greco-Roman texts"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes index.