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In Stone and Story: Early Christianity in the Roman World is unavailable, but you can change that!

This beautifully designed, full-color textbook introduces the Roman background of the New Testament by immersing students in the life and culture of the thriving first-century city of Pompeii, which found itself right in the path of the spread of the early Christian movement. Bruce Longenecker, a leading scholar of the ancient world of the New Testament, discusses first-century artifacts in...

seems to have been given a bedroom that was perhaps superior to the kind of sleeping situations that most other slaves would have had (for instance, sleeping in hallways; one hallway had small stone benches perhaps for this purpose). Some kinds of servitude commanded status more than other kinds. Moreover, some slaves had more opportunity than others to capitalize on their status. At times a slave could benefit from strategically advantageous opportunities even beyond the opportunities of a free
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