Christian Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9783846543184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 220 str.

Wesley Rose

Opis

Since Rome controlled the life of the Judeans, who lived in Rome? If we add to the Greeks, the Syrians, the Egyptians, and the Jews some Numidians, Nubians, and Ethiopians from Africa; a few Arabs, Parthians, Cappadocians, Armenians, Phrygians, and Bithynians from Asia; powerful "barbarians" from Dalmatia, Thrace, Dacia, and Germany; mustachioed nobles from Gaul, poets and peasants from Spain, and "tattooed savages from Britain" - we get an ethnic picture of a very heterogeneous and cosmopolitan Rome. This is the world in which Christianity developed...

O autorze

He did his field work in Israel, Egypt, Turkey, and Jordan while on active duty in the US Air Force during the period between 1989 to 2000. He served as a Chaplain in five theaters of war and spanning well over a decade. He founded his own School on Early Christian History and recently began the process to offer courses in Biblical Archeology.