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Peter Oakes has long been recognized for his illuminating use of Greco-Roman material culture and social-scientific criticism to interpret the New Testament. This volume combines his best work in a single volume and introduces a substantial new essay that challenges current scholarly approaches to paradoxical teachings of the New Testament. Of special interest to Oakes throughout this book is...

of jewelry: a gold necklace, a pair of gold and pearl earrings, two gold earrings, and two gold rings. Two bodies of people who died in the eruption were found. One had twenty-six silver coins and forty-eight bronze ones. The other, younger person had twenty-six bronze coins. Upstairs there were a further fourteen silver and ten bronze coins. A number of further decorative items of moderate value were also discovered.13 Figure 1.1. House of the Cabinetmaker (I.10.7)
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