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The first Christians in the Roman world : Augustan and New Testament essays / E. A. Judge ; edited by James R. Harrison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Judge, E. A.
- Series:
- Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament ; 229.
- Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. New Testament.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Bible. New Testament--History of contemporary events.
- Bible.
- Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
- Augustus.
- History of contemporary events.
- Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 786 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2008]
- Contents:
- The private sources of force in Roman politics
- The Roman theory of historical degeneration
- Contemptu famae contemni virtutes : on the morality of self-advertisement among the Romans
- The literature of Roman political self-advertisement
- Roman literary memorials
- Veni. Vidi. Vici, and the inscription of Cornelius Gaius
- The period of Augustus and the Julio-Claudians
- Caesar and Augustus
- Causar's son and heir
- The "settlements' of Augustus : a constitutional reform?
- The real basis of Augustan power
- Augustus and the Roman nobility
- The Augustan republic : Tiberius and Claudius on Roman history
- "Res publica restituta" : a modern illusion?
- The eulogistic inscriptions of the Augustan forum : Augustus on Roman history
- Augustus in the Res gestae
- On judging the merits of Augustus
- The second thoughts of Syme on Augustus
- The regional kanōn for requisitioned transport
- A woman's behaviour
- Ethical terms in St. Paul and the inscriptions of Ephesus
- Setting the record straight : alternative documents of a protest in the Roman army in Egypt
- What kind of ruler did the Greeks think Augustus was?
- "We have no king but Caesar" : when was Caesar first seen as a king?
- Was Christianity a religion?
- First impressions of St. Paul
- "Signs of the times" : the role of the portentous in classical and apostolic narrative
- The mark of the Beast, Revelation 13:16
- The gentile response to Judaism in the first century
- Judaism and the rise of Christianity : a Roman perspective
- The origin of the church at Rome : a new solution?
- The decrees of Caesar at Thessalonica
- Christliche Gruppen in nichchristlicher Gesellschaft : die Sozialstruktur christlicher Gruppen im ersten Jahrhundert
- The early Christians as a scholastic community
- The Roman base of Paul's mission
- Demythologising the church : what is the meaning of "the body of Christ"?
- Contemporary political models for the interrelations of the New Testament churches
- Did the churches compete with cult-groups?
- "On this rock I will build my ekklēsia" : counter-cultic springs of multiculturalism
- St. Paul and Socrates
- The appeal to convention in St. Paul
- The conflict of educational aims in the New Testament
- The reaction against classical education in the New Testament
- The biblical shape of modern culture.
- Notes:
- Collection of previously published essays and lectures.
- "Collected papers of E.A. Judge": pages [733]-737.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783161493102
- 3161493109
- OCLC:
- 236220840
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