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This is a groundbreaking study of the origins of the Church’s ministry, which focuses on the significance and role of the elders in the social world of the New Testament. Alastair Campbell challenges the consensus view among Protestant scholars of this and the last century that the elders were the holders of a definite office derived from a similar office in the synagogue. As such, they have...

character.7 Its introduction into Pauline churches at a later stage is seen as a decline. During the last twenty years there has been an explosion of interest in the social world of the first Christians, and especially in the Graeco-Roman household as the matrix of the early churches. This has already prompted reconsideration of local church leadership in the acknowledged letters of Paul,8 in the post-Pauline churches,9 and in the Apostolic Fathers.10 However, there has been no full-length
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