Judith Perkins: 2 books
The Suffering Self
Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the perception of the self as sufferer....
by Judith Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
Through the close study of texts, Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era examines the overlapping emphases and themes of two cosmopolitan and multiethnic cultural identities emerging in the early centuries CE – a trans-empire alliance of the Elite and the "Christians." Exploring...