Roman Wall Blues
Peter Parsons, 17 May 1984
Vindolanda: The Latin Writing-Tablets
by A.K. Bowman and J.D. Thomas.
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 157 pp., £16.50, November 1983,0 907764 02 9 Show More
by A.K. Bowman and J.D. Thomas.
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 157 pp., £16.50, November 1983,
The Christians as the Romans saw them
by Robert Wilken.
Yale, 214 pp., £12.95, February 1983,0 300 03066 5 Show More
by Robert Wilken.
Yale, 214 pp., £12.95, February 1983,
The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul
by Wayne Meeks.
Yale, 299 pp., £15, June 1983,0 300 02876 8 Show More
by Wayne Meeks.
Yale, 299 pp., £15, June 1983,
Life in Egypt under Roman Rule
by Naphtali Lewis.
Oxford, 239 pp., £15, August 1983,0 19 814848 8 Show More
by Naphtali Lewis.
Oxford, 239 pp., £15, August 1983,
“... in rhetorical polarities. All this has to be allowed for. It’s the world of the Epistles which Wayne Meeks sets out to re-create in The First Urban Christians. Half the book deals with the external world: roads and cities, the Jewish diaspora which might provide access or enmity, the social classes and social structures ... ”
