Add to ORKGThis study deals with the question as to whether first- and second-century sources reflect ancient Christian practices of care for prisoners and in how far these sources help clarify the reasons why Christians cared for prisoners in different contexts. The study explores material not only from the New Testament Gospels (Matt. 25; Luke 4) and Acts, but also from the Pauline Corpus and extra-canonical literature such as Ignatius of Antioch's Epistles, later Acts of the Apostles, Martyrdom literature and even a passage from Lucian of Samosata's Life of Peregrinus. The article concludes that the evidence for Christian care for prisoners is earlier and more widespread than usually assumed. While some sources do not reflect on reasons for this pr...
In the Roman Empire, there was a trend to formulate total devotion to a deity as being a slave to a ...
At the beginning of the fourth century the legal situation of Christians in the Roman Empire changed...
The article focuses on the social and theological dynamics that drove early Christ-followers to unde...
This study deals with the question as to whether first- and second-century sources reflect ancient C...
With few exceptions, many of the Church Fathers approved, in principle, of the punishment of slaves....
With few exceptions, many of the Church Fathers approved, in principle, of the punishment of slaves....
Deposited with permisson of the author. © 2000 Arther James BolkasThis study investigates whether C...
Understanding the physical realities and social attitudes concerning incarceration in the ancient wo...
The healing was an important issue in the first century is established first. The views of Mark, Lu...
Late Roman imperial legislation relating to abandoned or exposed children has been the subject of mu...
During the past half-century Roman historians have for the most part put political history on the ba...
In 1566, Pope Pius V granted the Conservatori of Rome the privilege of conferring emancipation and R...
At the rear of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is a small chapel known as the Prison o...
The early Christians engaged Jewish and Roman criminal jurisdictions as two distinct instantiations ...
This article provides an overview of the problem of orphans in the ancient Mediterranean world and i...
In the Roman Empire, there was a trend to formulate total devotion to a deity as being a slave to a ...
At the beginning of the fourth century the legal situation of Christians in the Roman Empire changed...
The article focuses on the social and theological dynamics that drove early Christ-followers to unde...
This study deals with the question as to whether first- and second-century sources reflect ancient C...
With few exceptions, many of the Church Fathers approved, in principle, of the punishment of slaves....
With few exceptions, many of the Church Fathers approved, in principle, of the punishment of slaves....
Deposited with permisson of the author. © 2000 Arther James BolkasThis study investigates whether C...
Understanding the physical realities and social attitudes concerning incarceration in the ancient wo...
The healing was an important issue in the first century is established first. The views of Mark, Lu...
Late Roman imperial legislation relating to abandoned or exposed children has been the subject of mu...
During the past half-century Roman historians have for the most part put political history on the ba...
In 1566, Pope Pius V granted the Conservatori of Rome the privilege of conferring emancipation and R...
At the rear of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is a small chapel known as the Prison o...
The early Christians engaged Jewish and Roman criminal jurisdictions as two distinct instantiations ...
This article provides an overview of the problem of orphans in the ancient Mediterranean world and i...
In the Roman Empire, there was a trend to formulate total devotion to a deity as being a slave to a ...
At the beginning of the fourth century the legal situation of Christians in the Roman Empire changed...
The article focuses on the social and theological dynamics that drove early Christ-followers to unde...