Some Results of Recent Archaeological Studies Bearing upon the New Testament and the Primitive Church
We are apt to overlook the fact that the New Testament literature has an archaeological background. We understand Paul better when we remember that he lived in a real world and that it is possible to know something about that world by the study of its actual survivals. Not to understand this world o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
1918
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The biblical world
Year: 1918, Volume: 51, Issue: 5, Pages: 259-268 |
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| Summary: | We are apt to overlook the fact that the New Testament literature has an archaeological background. We understand Paul better when we remember that he lived in a real world and that it is possible to know something about that world by the study of its actual survivals. Not to understand this world of the New Testament is so far to fail in getting the full force of the New Testament. Through archaeology we enter history. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The biblical world
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/476018 |