Archaeology and the Letters of Paul

This study illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those to whom the apostle Paul wrote. It articulates a method for bringing together biblical texts with archaeological remains.

About the author

Laura Nasrallah's research and teaching bring together New Testament and early Christian literature with the archaeological remains of the Mediterranean world, and often engage issues of colonialism, gender, status, and power. Her publications include An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity (2004) and Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire (2010).

Summary

This study illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those to whom the apostle Paul wrote. It articulates a method for bringing together biblical texts with archaeological remains.

Additional text

[An] ... interesting, erudite, and distinctive book.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Salah Nasrallah, Laura Salah (Professor of New Testament Nasrallah, Laura Salah (Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Nasrallah, Nasrallah Laura Salah
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780199699674
• ISBN: 978-0-19-969967-4
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; MEDICAL / General, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts, Christianity, Ancient / Biblical Israel, History of Religion, Archaeology by period / region, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / New Testament / Paul's Letters, New Testaments, The Early Church, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Biblical Archaeology