TY  - BOOK
AU  - Downing,F.Gerald
TI  - Doing things with words in the first Christian century
T2  - Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series
SN  - 1841271519
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Sheffield
PB  - Sheffield Academic Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Gospels
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Christian life
KW  - History
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Although its religious heritage was that of a variegated Judaism, the tiny early Christian movement was nevertheless much more complexly and richly linked with the Graeco-Roman world in which it came to birth than is usually allowed for. In particular, 'ordinary' people were capable of a sophisticated use of words that can be detected also in the New Testament writings. But the use of words in Graeco-Roman times was often very different from what we suppose, and this collection of studies attempts to identify some of the anachronisms that still pervade even the best of modern scholarship
ER  -