LEADER 03151oam 22004334a 450 001 9910150179703321 005 20170922081348.0 010 $a1-5064-1897-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000939346 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4733175 035 $a(OCoLC)962329494 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse54492 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000939346 100 $a20161104e20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aEarly Christianity in Pompeiian Light $ePeople, Texts, Situations /$fBruce Longenecker, editor 210 1$aMinneapolis, Minnesota :$cFortress Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (274 pages) 311 $a1-4514-9010-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 201-240) and indexes. 327 $aEditor's preface -- part I. Envisioning situations -- 1. Growing up female in the Pauline churches : what did she do all day? / Carolyn Osiek -- 2. Nine types of church in nine types of space in the Insula of the Menander / Peter Oakes -- 3. The empress, the goddess, and the earthquake : atmospheric conditions pertaining to Jesus-devotion in Pompeii / Bruce W. Longenecker -- Part II. Enhancing Texts -- 4. Powers and protection in Pompeii and Paul : the apotropaic function of the cross in the Letter to the Galatians / Natalie R. Webb -- 5. Violence in Pompeian/Roman domestic art as a visual context for Pauline and Deutero-Pauline letters / David L. Balch -- 6. Spheres and trajectories : the Angels of the Churches (Revelation 1-3) in context / Jeremiah N. Bailey. 330 $aScholars of early Christianity are awakening to the potential of Pompeii's treasures for casting light on the settings and situations that were commonplace and conventional for the first urban Christians. The uncovered world of Pompeii, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., allows us to peer back in time, capturing a heightened sense of what life was like on the ground in the first century -- the very time when the early Jesus-movement was beginning to find its feet. In light of the Vesuvian material remains, historians are beginning to ask fresh questions of early Christian texts and perceive new contours, nuances, and subtleties within the situations those texts address. The essays of this book explore different dimensions of Pompeii's potential to refine our lenses for interpreting the texts and situations of early Christianity. The contributors to this book (including Carolyn Osiek, David Balch, Peter Oakes, Bruce Longenecker, and others) demonstrate that it is an exciting time to explore the interface between the Vesuvian contexts and the early Jesus-movement. 606 $aChurch history$y2nd century 607 $aPompeii (Extinct city)$xChurch history 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChurch history 676 $a937.7 702 $aLongenecker$b Bruce W. 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910150179703321 996 $aEarly Christianity in Pompeiian Light$92895907 997 $aUNINA