Bruce W. Winter is the former warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge, and a respected authority on the historical background to the New Testament. His previous books include After Paul Left Corinth: The Influence of Secular Ethics and Social Change and Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The Appearance of New Women and the Pauline Communities.
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"A finely written monograph mining many ancient sources to provide
a clear picture of the Christians' first-century world. . . .
Immensely informative." Andrew D. Clarke
-- University of Aberdeen
"This volume presents Winter's careful re-evaluation of the
extraordinarily rapid spread of social pressure among both Gentiles
and Jews, across the first-century Greek East, publicly to honour
living Roman emperors as divine beings. His geographically and
chronologically focused approach especially reveals a diverse range
of responses to this phenomenon both among the Jews and among the
first Christians whose primary allegiance was to Jesus as Messiah.
By analysing the primary, non-literary sources and building on the
scholarship of other ancient historians, this study advances the
field in particular and important ways." Stephen Mitchell
-- University of Exeter
"Takes account of much important new research on emperor worship
and will be required reading for ancient historians as well as for
students of the New Testament."
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