The first Christians in the Roman world : Augustan and New Testament essays - Judge, E. A.; Harrison, James R., 1952- (T bingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2008)
The private sources of force in Roman politics -- The Roman theory of historical degeneration -- Contemptu famae contemni virtutes : on the morality of self-advertisement among the Romans -- The literature of Roman political self-advertisement -- Roman literary memorials -- Veni. Vidi. Vici, and the inscription of Cornelius Gaius -- The period of Augustus and the Julio-Claudians -- Caesar and Augustus -- Causar's son and heir -- The "settlements' of Augustus : a constitutional reform? -- The real basis of Augustan power -- Augustus and the Roman nobility -- The Augustan republic : Tiberius and Claudius on Roman history -- "Res publica restituta" : a modern illusion? -- The eulogistic inscriptions of the Augustan forum : Augustus on Roman history -- Augustus in the Res gestae -- On judging the merits of Augustus -- The second thoughts of Syme on Augustus -- The regional kan on for requisitioned transport -- A woman's behaviour -- Ethical terms in St. Paul and the inscriptions of Ephesus -- Setting the record straight : alternative documents of a protest in the Roman army in Egypt -- What kind of ruler did the Greeks think Augustus was? -- "We have no king but Caesar" : when was Caesar first seen as a king? -- Was Christianity a religion? -- First impressions of St. Paul -- "Signs of the times" : the role of the portentous in classical and apostolic narrative -- The mark of the Beast, Revelation 13:16 -- The gentile response to Judaism in the first century -- Judaism and the rise of Christianity : a Roman perspective -- The origin of the church at Rome : a new solution? -- The decrees of Caesar at Thessalonica -- Christliche Gruppen in nichchristlicher Gesellschaft : die Sozialstruktur christlicher Gruppen im ersten Jahrhundert -- The early Christians as a scholastic community -- The Roman base of Paul's mission -- Demythologising the church : what is the meaning of "the body of Christ"? -- Contemporary political models for the interrelations of the New Testament churches -- Did the churches compete with cult-groups? -- "On this rock I will build my ekkl esia" : counter-cultic springs of multiculturalism -- St. Paul and Socrates -- The appeal to convention in St. Paul -- The conflict of educational aims in the New Testament -- The reaction against classical education in the New Testament -- The biblical shape of modern culture.
Collection of previously published essays and lectures.
"Collected papers of E.A. Judge": p. [733]-737.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Augustus, -- Emperor of Rome, -- 63 B.C.-14 A.D.; Bible. -- History of contemporary events; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.; Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.