Ancient Christians are closely connected to today's world through a living memory and a common textual heritage - the Bible - even for non-Christians. However, as this engrossing new account shows, much about the early Christians is foreign to us and far removed from what passes for Christianity today.
Ancient Christians are closely connected to today's world through a living memory and a common textual heritage - the Bible - even for non-Christians. However, as this engrossing new account shows, much about the early Christians is foreign to us and far removed from what passes for Christianity today.
Hartmut Leppin is a Professor of Ancient History at Goethe University, Frankfurt. His research focuses on early Christianity and he has been awarded Germany's highest science prize, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, as well as the Erwin Stein Prize for interdisciplinary work that is also relevant to the present. His publications have been translated into six languages.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Prologue: a dead body is lost to the world 1. Neither Jewish nor pagan? 2. Christian authorities 3. (Not) of this world: caring for self and others 4. Citizens of two worlds Looking back and ahead Postscript.
Introduction Prologue: a dead body is lost to the world 1. Neither Jewish nor pagan? 2. Christian authorities 3. (Not) of this world: caring for self and others 4. Citizens of two worlds Looking back and ahead Postscript.
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