TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winter, Bruce W.
AU  - 
TI  - Divine Honours for the Caesars
SN  - 9780802872579
U1  - 270.1 
CY  - U.S.A.
KW  - Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc -- History -- Early church, ca 30-600
KW  - Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca 30-600
KW  - Church and state -- Rome
N2  - 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
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