Description: Further DetailsTitle: LydiaCondition: NewSubtitle: Paul�s Cosmopolitan HostessISBN-10: 0814652697EAN: 9780814652695ISBN: 9780814652695Publisher: Liturgical PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/01/2009Description: Human beings are embedded in a set of social relations. A social network is one way of conceiving that set of relations in terms of a number of persons connected to one another by varying degrees of relatedness. In the early Jesus-group documents featuring Paul and coworkers, it takes little effort to envision the apostle's collection of friends and friends of friends that is the Pauline network. The persons who constituted that network are the focus of this set of brief books. For Christians of the Western tradition, these persons are significant ancestors in faith. While each of them is worth knowing by themselves, it is largely because of their standing within that web of social relations woven about and around Paul that they are of lasting interest. Through this series we hope to come to know those persons in ways befitting their first-century Mediterranean culture. Women played a prominent role in the development of the early Jesus communities and formed an essential part of Paul's social network. Lydia was one such woman. Her heart was opened to Paul's message, she responded with faith by being baptized, and she offered her home in hospitality to Paul and his companions. But beyond this not much is known of her. In Lydia: Paul's Cosmopolitan Hostess, Richard S.Ascough constructs an image of Lydia based on what is known about the political, commercial, social, and religious norms of the first-century world. Ascough describes the styles of possible dwellings in which Lydia could have lived, the business opportunities that would have been available to her, and the religious cults that held sway in Philippi at the time. With Ascough, readers will find that the importance of Lydia's story is that she hears the message of God through Paul and responds with faith.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 137mmItem Weight: 170gAuthor: Richard S. AscoughContributor: Bruce J. Malina (Edited by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Pauls Social NetworkItem Width: 6mmRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Lydia
Title: Lydia
Subtitle: Paul�s Cosmopolitan Hostess
ISBN-10: 0814652697
EAN: 9780814652695
ISBN: 9780814652695
Release Date: 02/01/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 210mm
Contributor: Bruce J. Malina (Edited by)
Series: Pauls Social Network
Book Title: Lydia : Paul's Cosmopolitan Hostess
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Topic: Biblical Commentary / New Testament, Biblical Biography / New Testament, Biblical Studies / General, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
Publication Year: 2009
Genre: Religion
Item Weight: 6 Oz
Author: Richard S. Ascough
Item Length: 8.2 in
Book Series: Pauls Social Network Ser.
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
