Roman domestic art and early house churches

Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome have yielded hundreds of wall paintings from domestic buildings. Greek myths and tragedies, especial by Euripides were visually represented. Balch presents an interdisciplinary study inquiring what earliest Jews and Christian in such houses might have been seeing as they read and interpreted scripture and performed core rituals, especially the Eucharist. This recent study of Roman domestic architecture suggests new perspectives on the social history of early Christianity.--Publisher.

Year

2008

Language

English

Series

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 228

Publisher

Mohr Siebeck

Editions

1

Pages

296

ISBN

9783161493836

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