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Going to Church in the First Century
"This brief narrative attempts to depict what it was like to attend an early Christian gathering in the middle of the first century. Rome was chosen as the location because we know more about details of ordinary life there at that time than anywhere else. Aquila and Priscilla were selected as hosts of the church because their long-term connection with Paul meant that the gathering in their home would most probably follow the line his letters suggest. The material utilized in this study came from biblical and other literary sources, both Roman and Greek, and from archaeological and inscriptional evidence."--The Preface
The First Century
An engrossing popular history of the major events and people at the time of Jesus, the Roman Empire, and the Han Dynasty.
Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century
Our contemporary culture is communicating ever-increasingly through the visual, through film, and through music. This makes it ever more urgent for theologians to explore the resources of art for enriching our understanding and experience of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Annunciations: Sacred Music for the twenty-First Century, edited by George Corbett, answers this need, evaluating the relationship between the sacred and the composition, performance, and appreciation of music. Through the theme of ‘annunciations’, this volume interrogates how, when, why, through and to whom God communicates in the Old and New Testaments. In doing so, it tackles the intimate relationship between Scriptu...
An Introduction to First Century Judaism
A comprehensive and readable introduction to the Judaism of the Second Temple period.
In Search of First-Century Christianity
Originally published in 2000, In Search of First Century Christianity contends that Christianity in the first century had no founder but rather evolved as a convergence of many forces: political disillusionment, cultural mutations, religious and theological motifs, psychosocial losses and new expectations. Moving on from an examination of the foundations of historical and literary criticism in the Renaissance, and a detailed study of two writers in antiquity, Thucydides and Chariton, to examine writings in the period between Plato and the Gospel of Mark, the authors then explore the writing of Paul and the stories told in the Gospels. With the early Christians drawing from both Greek and Heb...
