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Doing Things with Words in the First Christian Century - Downing, Francis Gerald
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Although its religious heritage was that of a variegated Judaism, the tiny early Christian movement was nevertheless much more complexly and richly linked with the Graeco-Roman world in which it came to birth than is usually allowed for. In particular, 'ordinary' people were capable of a sophisticated use of words that can be detected also in the New Testament writings. But the use of words in Graeco-Roman times was often very different from what we suppose, and this collection of studies attempts to identify some of the ...

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Doing Things with Words in the First Christian Century 2000, Sheffield Academic Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780567043702

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Doing Things with Words in the First Christian Century 2000, T & T Clark International, New York

ISBN-13: 9781841271514

Hardcover