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Christianity in the Greco-Roman World: A Narrative Introduction is unavailable, but you can change that!

Background becomes foreground in Moyer Hubbard’s creative introduction to the social and historical setting of the Apostle Paul’s letters to the churches in Asia Minor and Europe. Hubbard begins each major section with a brief narrative that features a fictional character in one of the era’s great cities. He elaborates on the various cultural aspects of the setting portrayed in the vignettes,...

Cicero defines superstition as “groundless fear of the Gods,” and this sentiment is echoed throughout the literature of the period.34 Seneca, Horace, Persius, Juvenal, Lucian, Plutarch, Valerius Maximus, and others besides, all cast a critical eye on the superstition of the masses and lament the sorry state of religion in their day. In mocking tones, Horace tells of the elderly freedman who, after fasting and ritual washing, runs frantically to the shrines at the crossroads in the wee hours of the
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