Laura Salah Nasrallah

Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture

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Produktbeschreibung

Laura Nasrallah argues that early Christian literature is best understood when read alongside the archaeological remains of Roman antiquity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 663g
• ISBN-13: 9781107644991
• ISBN-10: 1107644992
• Artikelnr.: 34030001

Autorenporträt

Laura Salah Nasrallah is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity and co-editor of Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies and From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonik¿: Studies in Religion and Archaeology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Framing the Question, Framing the World: 1. What is
an apology? Christian apologies and the so-called second sophistic; 2. What
is the space of the Roman Empire? Mapping, bodies, and knowledge in the
Roman World; Part II. Into the Cities: 3. What informs the geographical
imagination? The acts of the Apostles and Greek cities under Rome; 4. What
is justice? What is piety? What is paideia? Justin, the forum of Trajan in
Rome, and a crisis of mim¿sis; Part III. Human Bodies and the Image(s) of
God(s): 5. How do you know God? Athenagoras on names and images; 6. What do
we learn when we look? (Part I) Images, desire, and Tatian's To the Greeks;
7. What do we learn when we look? (Part II) Aphrodite and Clement of
Alexandria; Epilogue.