TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frend, W. H. C  
TI  - The archaeology of early Christianity: a history / 
SN  - 9780800631178 
AV  - BR132 .F74 1998  
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Christian antiquities
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - History
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Church history
KW  - |yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
N1  -     Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-404) and 
       index
N2  - "Spectacular recent discoveries and a stream of material artifacts have heightened interest in what archaeology can tell us about early Christianity. The first of its kind, William Frend's important and engaging work tells the full story of the archaeological search for early Christianity. He shows how, despite nationalisms, religious rivalry, and personal ambition, archaeology since Napoleon's time has excavated important sites and developed scientific methods to explore them. He explains the important light      archaeology sheds on the art, architecture, and social world of Christians in the Roman Empire. He shows how archaeology enriches our understanding of Jewish-Christian relations in the first centuries, and provides clues to long-ignored popular religion and non-orthodox traditions of the Donatists, Manichees, and Monophysites. And he shows how archaeology decisively corrects and modifies text-based scholarly consensus on the mission of Christianity in the Roman Empire."--Jacket
ER  -