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,
“... material looks bulky, but the survival rate is in fact tiny, and skewed in time, place and class. Naphtali Lewis’s Life in Egypt under Roman Rule sticks mainly to the anecdotal: it is a wide-ranging and sharp-eyed ramble through towns and villages, farms and factories, banks and temples, law courts and government offices. The reader will find a general ... ”
