The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul
What was it like to be an ordinary Christian in the beginning decades of the Roman Empire? In this absorbing and authoritative book, Meeks analyzes the earliest extant documents of Christianity--the letters of Paul--to describe the tensions and the texture of life of the first urban Christians.
What was it like to be an ordinary Christian in the beginning decades of the Roman Empire? In this absorbing and authoritative book, Meeks analyzes the earliest extant documents of Christianity--the letters of Paul--to describe the tensions and the texture of life of the first urban Christians.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780300098617 (0300098618)
ASIN: 300098618
Publish date: February 8th 2003
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English