The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul

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About This Book

In this classic work, Wayne A. Meeks analyses the earliest extant documents of Christianity - the letters of Paul - to describe the tensions and the texture of life of the first urban Christians. In a new introduction, he traces the evolution of the field of new Testament scholarship over the past twenty years, including new developments in such fields as archaeology and social history.