1st Edition
Constructing Early Christian Families Family as Social Reality and Metaphor
Edited By Halvor Moxnes
Copyright 1997
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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The family is a topical issue for studies of the Ancient world. Family, household and kinship have different connotations in antiquity from their modern ones. This volume expands that discussion to investigate the early Christian family structures within the larger Graeco-Roman context. Particular emphasis is given to how family metaphors, such as 'brotherhood' function to describe relations in... Read more
List of illustrations, List of contributors, Preface, List of abbreviations, 1 INTRODUCTION, Part I The social context of early Christian families, Part II Family as metaphor, Part III Family, sexuality and asceticism in early Christianity, Index of ancient sources, Index of modern authors
Biography
Halvor Moxnes is Professor of New Testament at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of The Economy of the Kingdom (1988) and other studies of social relations in early Christianity.
