LIGHT FROM AN ENTOMBED TOWN: POMPEII AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY
| Date | November 6, 2015 | Time | 9:00 am - 4:30 pm |
| Location | TBA Baylor University Waco, TX 76798 | ||
| Description |  the year 79, the sprawling town of Pompeii was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. An instrument of death, the ash from the mountains explosion captured configurations of life from the first century worlds configurations increasingly unveiled through the archaeological initiatives of the past 250 years or so. The small urban world entombed by the eruption belonged to the same world in which the early Jesus-movement was finding its feet, forming small enclaves of Jesus-followers throughout urban centers of the Mediterranean basin. If the material world of Pompeii lies exposed to the historian, does that same urban world offer insight into Christianity in its earliest days? Do the material remains of a first-century town overspill to enhance our understanding of the early Jesus-movement? What might configurations of Pompeian life teach us about the first urban Christians? A group of international scholars gather to consider prospects for shedding new light on early Christianity through Pompeian perspectives. Scholars will include Dr. Carolyn Osiek (Brite Divinity School), Dr. Peter Oakes (University of Manchester), Dr. Edward Adams (Kings College London), Dr. David Balch (Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary), Dr. Bruce Longenecker (Baylor University) and Dr. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (University of Cambridge) RegistrationPricing• Entire event (free) Deadline11/06/2015 9:00 AM How to register | ||
| Publisher | zzz (old) Institute for Studies of Religion | ||
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