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Early Christian families in context : an interdisciplinary dialogue / edited by David L. Balch and Carolyn Osiek.

Contributor(s): Balch, David L | Osiek, Carolyn
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: xix, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 080283986X (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Families -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Congresses | Rome -- Social life and customs -- Congresses | Families -- Rome -- CongressesDDC classification: 261.8/3585/093 LOC classification: BR195.F35 | E27 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-388) and index.
Contents:
Archaeology of Domus and Insulae: Domus and Insulae in Rome: families and housefuls / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill -- Material and social environment of Greco-Roman households in the East: the case of Hellenistic Delos / Monika Trumper -- The problems of gendered space in Syro-Palestinian domestic architecture: the case of Roman period Galilee / Eric M. Meyers -- Domestic values, equality, suffering: The language of equality in early Christian house churches: a constructivist approach / Peter Lampe -- Paul's portrait of Christ crucified (Gal. 3:1) in light of paintings and sculptures of suffering and death in Pompeiian and Roman houses / David L. Balch -- Women: Sex and the married woman in ancient Rome / Suzanne Dixon -- Typical and atypical family dynamics, the cases of Babatha and Berenice / Ross S. Kraemer -- Was Celsus right? The role of women in the expansion of early Christianity / Margaret Y. MacDonald -- Women, slaves, and the economy of the Roman household / r Richard Saller --
Slaves: Slave families and slaves in families / Dale B. Martin -- The domestic enemy: a moral polarity of household slaves / J. Albert Harrill -- Female slaves, porneia, and the limits of obedience / Carolyn Osiek -- Children: Death, burial, and commeration of children in Roman Italy / Beryl Rawson -- Desperately different? Delicia children in the Roman household / Christian Laes -- Implications for theological education: Theological education, the Bible, and history: detente in the culture wars / Amy-Jill Levine -- Theological education and the analogical imagination / Timothy F. Sedgwick -- Why family matters for early Christian literature / Margaret M. Mitchell --

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-388) and index.

Archaeology of Domus and Insulae: Domus and Insulae in Rome: families and housefuls / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill -- Material and social environment of Greco-Roman households in the East: the case of Hellenistic Delos / Monika Trumper -- The problems of gendered space in Syro-Palestinian domestic architecture: the case of Roman period Galilee / Eric M. Meyers -- Domestic values, equality, suffering: The language of equality in early Christian house churches: a constructivist approach / Peter Lampe -- Paul's portrait of Christ crucified (Gal. 3:1) in light of paintings and sculptures of suffering and death in Pompeiian and Roman houses / David L. Balch -- Women: Sex and the married woman in ancient Rome / Suzanne Dixon -- Typical and atypical family dynamics, the cases of Babatha and Berenice / Ross S. Kraemer -- Was Celsus right? The role of women in the expansion of early Christianity / Margaret Y. MacDonald -- Women, slaves, and the economy of the Roman household / r Richard Saller --

Slaves: Slave families and slaves in families / Dale B. Martin -- The domestic enemy: a moral polarity of household slaves / J. Albert Harrill -- Female slaves, porneia, and the limits of obedience / Carolyn Osiek -- Children: Death, burial, and commeration of children in Roman Italy / Beryl Rawson -- Desperately different? Delicia children in the Roman household / Christian Laes -- Implications for theological education: Theological education, the Bible, and history: detente in the culture wars / Amy-Jill Levine -- Theological education and the analogical imagination / Timothy F. Sedgwick -- Why family matters for early Christian literature / Margaret M. Mitchell -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index of modern authors -- Index of scripture and other ancient literature.

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