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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,...

Quite apart from these isolated, and somewhat disparate sound bites from antiquity, the surviving literary and inscriptional evidence, including the NT, depict Jewish communities in the Greco-Roman world centered around houses of worship (synagogues, see City and Society: Urban Landscape and Environment) and focused on promoting Jewish piety through adherence to authoritative religious traditions and practices. In addition to ethnicity, Jewish identity in the Greco-Roman world was reinforced through
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