The Archaeology of Early Christianity
Title | The Archaeology of Early Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | W. H. C. Frend |
Publisher | Augsburg Fortress Publishing |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Religion |
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Spectacular recent discoveries and a stream of material artifacts have heightened interest in what archaeology can tell us about early Christianity. The first of its kind, William Frend's important and engaging work tells the full story of the archaeological search for early Christianity. He shows how, despite nationalisms, religious rivalry, and personal ambition, archaeology since Napoleon's time has excavated important sites and developed scientific methods to explore them. He explains the important light archaeology sheds on the art, architecture, and social world of Christians in the Roman Empire. He shows how archaeology enriches our understanding of Jewish-Christian relations in the first centuries, and provides clues to long-ignored popular religion and non-orthodox traditions of the Donatists, Manichees, and Monophysites. And he shows how archaeology decisively corrects and modifies text-based scholarly consensus on the mission of Christianity in the Roman Empire.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | David K. Pettegrew |
Publisher | Oxford Handbooks |
Pages | 724 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199369046 |
"This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The 34 essays to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in the latest currents of archaeological method, theory, and research."--
God's Library
Title | God's Library PDF eBook |
Author | Brent Nongbri |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2018-08-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0300240988 |
A provocative book from a highly original scholar, challenging much of what we know about early Christian manuscripts In this bold and groundbreaking book, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While biblical scholars have expended much effort in their study of the texts contained within our earliest Christian manuscripts, there has been a surprising lack of interest in thinking about these books as material objects with individual, unique histories. We have too often ignored the ways that the antiquities market obscures our knowledge of the origins of these manuscripts. Through painstaking archival research and detailed studies of our most important collections of early Christian manuscripts, Nongbri vividly shows how the earliest Christian books are more than just carriers of texts or samples of handwriting. They are three-dimensional archaeological artifacts with fascinating stories to tell, if we’re willing to listen.
From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikē
Title | From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikē PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Nasrallah |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0674053222 |
This volume brings together international scholars of religion, archaeologists, and scholars of art and architectural history to investigate social, political, and religious life in Roman and early Christian Thessalonikē, an important metropolis in the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Christian periods and beyond. This volume is the first broadly interdisciplinary investigation of Roman and early Christian Thessalonikē in English and offers new data and new interpretations by scholars of ancient religion and archaeology. The book covers materials usually treated by a broad range of disciplines: New Testament and early Christian literature, art historical materials, urban planning in antiquity, material culture and daily life, and archaeological artifacts from the Roman to the late antique period.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Ashbrook Harvey |
Publisher | Oxford Handbooks Online |
Pages | 1049 |
Release | 2008-09-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199271569 |
Provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. --from publisher description.
The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology
Title | The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | Finney |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 822 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0802890164 |
One of the most widely respected theological dictionaries put into one-volume, abridged form. Focusing on the theological meaning of each word, the abridgment contains English keywords for each entry, tables of English and Greek keywords, and a listing of the relevant volume and page numbers from the unabridged work at the end of each article or section.
Archaeology and History in the Study of Early Christianity
Title | Archaeology and History in the Study of Early Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | W. H. C. Frend |
Publisher | Variorum Publishing |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Religion |
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