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Papyri and the social world of the New Testament
- Title
- Papyri and the social world of the New Testament / Sabine R. Huebner, Universität Basel, Switzerland.
- Author
- Huebner, Sabine R., 1976-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xv, 192 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In this book, Sabine R. Huebner explores the world of the protagonists of the New Testament and the early Christians using the rich papyrological evidence from Roman Egypt. This gives us unparalleled insights into the everyday lives of the non-elite population in an area quite similar to neighboring Judaea-Palestine. What were the daily concerns and difficulties experienced by a carpenter's family or by a shepherd looking after his flocks? How did the average man or woman experience a Roman census? What obstacles did women living in a patriarchal society face in private, in public, and in the early Church? Given the flight of Jesus' family into Egypt, how mobile were the lower classes, what was their understanding of geography, and what costs and dangers were associated with travel? This volume gives a better understanding of the structural, social, and cultural conditions under which figures from the New Testament lived."--
- Subjects
- Christian life
- Church history
- Egypt
- Christian sociology > History > Early church, ca. 30-600
- Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
- Christian sociology > Egypt
- 30-600
- Egypt > Church history
- Church history > Primitive and early church
- Christian life > Egypt > History
- History
- Christian sociology > Early church
- Genre/Form
- Church history.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and indexes.
- Contents
- Egypt and the social world of the New Testament -- The social milieu of early Christians in Egypt: who were the first readers of the New Testament gospels?-- "In those days a decree went out...": the Herodian kingdom and the Augustan provincial census system -- "But these words seemed to them an idle tale": discrimination and the struggle for women's equality in early Christianity -- "The carpenter's son": the family and household of a craftsman -- "In those days Mary set out...": travel by the lower classes in Roman times -- "In that region there were shepherds living in the fields...": an occupation on the margins of society -- Afterword.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-11276
- ISBN
- 9781108470254
- 1108470254
- 9781108455701
- 1108455700
- 9781108567497 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018050506
- OCLC
- 1065724153
- Author
- Huebner, Sabine R., 1976- author.
- Title
- Papyri and the social world of the New Testament / Sabine R. Huebner, Universität Basel, Switzerland.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and indexes.
- Chronological Term
- 30-600
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108567497
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-11276