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...

his father made on his behalf, including serving as his paedagogus. He maintained that his father deserved unstinting gratitude and praise (Sat. 1.6.65–92). Conversely, Quintilian spoke of the grief he felt at the loss of his two sons (Inst., Preface 6–11). Fond paternal feelings did exist in this legally constructed unit, although deference and obedience were also expected (pietas). Seneca the Younger highlights this mind-set when he says, “I obeyed my parents.… In only one respect was I unyielding:

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