The Lord’s Prayer through North African Eyes: A Window into Early Christianity (Biblia.com)

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Michael Brown’s volume helps to explain why Christians throughout the ages have interpreted texts differently, especially cultic texts. Beginning with an imagined Graeco-Roman auditor of the Lord’s Prayer, Brown demonstrates how a Graeco-Roman’s understanding of the prayer would have been different from that of a Hellenized Jew in Palestine. Brown takes the reader into discussions of early...

the child of earth and starry sky, in whom are birth and growth and decline, [you are] the husband of Rhea, majestic forethought, you live in every part of the cosmos [as] the ruler of creation, clever and most brave. Hear my suppliant voice, and bring a good life to a blameless end. (Alderink)29 Add to these examples those from countless papyri and other literary sources, and the practice of designating a god as father in religious texts is seen as quite conventional. As in the case of the literary

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