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Title: Families in the New Testament World: Households and House Churches by Carolyn Osiek, David L. Balch ISBN: 0-664-25546-9 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Summary: Early Christian Hearth and Home
Comment: This book, one of a number of excellent titles from the Religion, Culture, and Family Project of the University of Chicago Divinity School, takes the reader behind the frequent rhetoric concerning the biblical family to the reality of family life in early Christian communities. Setting the New Testament teachings on the family within the social and cultural context of the Greco-Roman world, it moves through an analysis of Greek and Roman household architecture to an analysis of family life. The open architecture of ancient Christian houses, unlike modern houses, had large entryways which invited anyone who passed by into their spacious and semi-public courtyards. Balch and Osiek's work shows how the architectural patterns of Greek and Roman homes formed and influenced relationships in early Christian house churches and how worship in these house churches influenced Christian families. For example, with respect to gender relations, it shows that early Christian women enjoyed wider ranges of freedom and leadership and that early Christian men learned to think of themselves as servants. This outstanding piece of scholarship shed new light on the early Christian household.
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Title: Families in Ancient Israel by Leo G. Perdue, Joseph Blenkinsopp, John J. Collins, Carol L. Meyers ISBN: 0664255671 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Early Christian Family by David L. Balch, Carolyn Osiek ISBN: 080283986X Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Honor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture by David A. Desilva ISBN: 0830815724 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Women and Christian Origins by Ross Shepard Kraemer, Mary Rose D'Angelo ISBN: 0195103963 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity by Philip Jenkins ISBN: 0195146166 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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