The Lord's Prayer Through North African Eyes: A Window Into Early Christianity

by Michael Joseph Brown

Michael Brown's book helps to explain why Christians throughout the ages have interpreted texts differently, especially cultic texts. Beginning with an imagined Graeco-Roman auditor of the Lord's Prayer, Brown demonstrates how a Graeco-Roman's understanding of the prayer would have been different from that of a Hellenized Jew in Palestine. Brown takes the reader into discussions of early Graeco-Roman Christians regarding prayer in general and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567026701
• ISBN13: 9780567026705
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"