Families in the New Testament World: Households and House Churches

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

CAROLYN S. OSIEK and DAVID L. BALCH, Families in the New Testament World: Households and House Churches (The Family, Religion, and Culture; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997). Pp. x + 329. Paper $25.

This book is part of a series, The Family, Religion, and Culture, edited by Don S. Browning and Ian S. Evison. The series, an outgrowth of the Religion, Culture and Family Project, funded by the Lilly Endowment, at the Institute for Advanced Study in the University of Chicago Divinity School, is supposed to contribute to the current American debate over the health and future well-being of ...

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