Winter, Bruce W. <br/><br/>
Divine Honours for the Caesars  The First Christians' Responses 
Bruce W. Winter 
 - U.S.A.  Wm. B. Eerdmans  2015 
 - 338tr.  paperback, illustrations  23 cm 
<br/><br/> This volume presents Winter's careful re-evaluation of the extraordinarily rapid spread of social pressure among both Gentiles and Jews, across the first-century Greek East publicly to honour living Roman emperors as divine beings. His geographically and chrnologically focused approach especially reveals a diverse range of responses to this phenomenon both among the Jews and among the first Christians whose primary allegiance was to Jesus as Messiah. By analysing the primary, non-literary sources and building on the scholarship of other ancient historians, this study advances the field in particular and important ways. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780802872579 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc -- History -- Early church, ca 30-600<br/>Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca 30-600<br/>Church and state -- Rome
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>270.1  / W784-B89