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...

ancient Rome (see Dio Cassius, Historiae Romanae 53.2.4),115 The banning of various religious groups in Rome and the provinces was presumably a matter of maintaining public order and political stability.116 After this declarative statement on the general tenor of imperial religious policy, let me nuance the matter a bit by pointing out that the emperors appear to have promoted the imperial cult actively and consistently, as well as other religious practices from time to time.117 Celebrations

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