A Week in the Life of Corinth

Author: Ben Witherington III
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830839623
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
In this work of historical fiction, Ben Witherington III provides a one of kind window into the social and cultural context of Paul's ministry.

A Week in the Life of Corinth

Author: Ben Witherington III
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 083086699X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
In this work of historical fiction, Ben Witherington III provides a one of kind window into the social and cultural context of Paul's ministry.

Paul and the Economy of Salvation

Author: Brendan SJ Byrne
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 149343067X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
This major contribution to Pauline scholarship by a widely-respected New Testament scholar is the culmination of over forty years of teaching on Paul. Brendan Byrne demonstrates that topics often discussed in Pauline studies and Christian theology go astray when the significance of the last judgment falls from view. Offering a fresh Catholic perspective that engages with centuries of Protestant interpretation, this book recaptures the significance of the motif of the last judgment for the interpretation of Paul.

A Week in the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman

Author: Holly Beers
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830849890
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
In first-century Ephesus, life is not easy for women. In this gripping novel, Holly Beers introduces us to the first-century setting where Paul first proclaimed the gospel. Illuminated by historical images and explanatory sidebars, this lively story not only shows us the rich tapestry of life in a Greco-Roman city, it also foregrounds the interior life of one woman—and the radical new freedom the gospel promised her.

A Week In the Life of Ephesus

Author: David A. deSilva
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830825371
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
In this historical novel, David deSilva paints a vivid portrait of Ephesus and brings to life the compelling struggles faced by early Christians. Supplemented by historical images and explanatory sidebars, this imaginative novel digs into the early Christians' conflict with the religious cults of the day as well as the Roman empire.

A Week in the Fall of Jerusalem

Author: Ben Witherington III
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830851739
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
It's AD 70, and Jerusalem is falling to the Romans, its temple being destroyed. As Jews and Christians try to escape the city, we travel with some of them through an imagined week of flight and faith. In this imaginative and entertaining narrative, Ben Witherington leads us behind the veil of centuries to experience the historical and social realities of this epochal event.

A Week in the Life of a Roman Centurion

Author: Gary M. Burge
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830897739
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
In this fast-paced fictional account, we follow Appius, a Roman centurion, and Tullus, his Jewish slave, from battles to the gladiator arena and finally to the village of Capernaum where they encounter a Jewish prophet from Nazareth. Seeing Galilee of Jesus' day through Roman eyes, we learn much about the culture and social world of Romans and Jews.

St. Paul's Corinth

Author: Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780894532900
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description

A Week in the Life of Rome

Author: James L. Papandrea
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830872612
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
From the overcrowded apartment buildings of the poor to the halls of the emperors, this gripping tale of ambition, intrigue, and sacrifice is a compelling work of historical fiction that shows us the first-century Roman church as we've never seen it before. Illuminated with images and explanatory sidebars, we are invited into the daily struggles of the church at Rome just a few years before Paul wrote his famous epistle to them.

A Week in the Life of a Slave

Author: John Byron
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830870784
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Paul's epistle to Philemon is one of the shortest books in the entire Bible, and it certainly leaves plenty to the imagination. From the pen of an accomplished New Testament scholar, this vivid historical fiction account follows the slave Onesimus, fleshing out the lived context of first-century Ephesus and providing a social and theological critique of slavery in the Roman Empire.