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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...

I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And one’s foes will be members of one’s own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matthew 10:35–37; see also Luke 12:52–53 The family resided at the heart of emperor Augustus’s plans to rejuvenate the Roman project. If civic
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