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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...

Throughout history, people have told stories to help them interpret their lives within the cultures in which they were embedded. These were stories about who they were, where they came from, what’s wrong with the world, how they were connected with other people, how they were different from other people, and where things were going. The more those stories could explain their world, the more powerful they proved to be; the more powerful those stories were, the more
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