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050			_aBR132 _b.F74 1998
100			_aFrend, W. H. C
245			_aThe archaeology of early Christianity : _ba history / _cWilliam H.C. Frend 250
250			_a1st Fortress Press paperback ed
260			_aMinneapolis : _bFortress Press, _c1998
300			_axix, 412 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color), maps ; _c24 cm
500			_a Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-404) and index
520			_a"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
650			_aChristian antiquities _xStudy and teaching _xHistory
650			_aChristian antiquities
650			_aExcavations (Archaeology)
650			_aChurch history _xStudy and teaching _xHistory _y|yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600
650			_aChurch history _yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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