TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moxnes,Halvor
TI  - Constructing early Christian families: family as social reality and metaphor 
SN  - 0415146399 (pbk.)
AV  - BS2545.F33 C66 1997
U1  - 261.8/3585/09015 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Bible
KW  - New Testament
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Families
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Sociology, Biblical
KW  - Rome
KW  - Jewish families
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Religion
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction / Halvor Moxnes --
What is family? : problems in constructing early Christian families / Halvor Moxnes --
The family in first-century Galilee / Santiago Guijarro --
The family as the bearer of religion in Judaism and early Christianity / John M.G. Barclay --
The relativisation of family ties in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman traditions / Stephen C. Barton --
The Roman family : ideal and metaphor / Eva Marie Lassen --
Family imagery and Christian identity in Gal 5:13 to 6:10 / Philip F. Esler --
Equality within patriarchal structures : some New Testament perspectives on the Christian fellowship as a brother- or sisterhood and a family / Karl Olav Sandnes --
Brotherhood in Plutarch and Paul : its role and character / Reidar Aasgaard --
Brotherhood in Christ : a gender hermeneutical reading of 1 Thessalonians / Lone Fatum --
Paul without passion : on Paul's rejection of desire in sex and marriage / Dale B. Martin --
Asceticism and anti-familial language in the Gospel of Thomas / Risto Uro --
Family structures in Gnostic religion / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0649/96044657-d.html
ER  -