St. Pauls Corinth: Texts and Archaeology (Good News Studies)

The title says it all. If you study or are (deeply) interested in the subject, this is the definitive book to buy.

Trata-se de uma recolha de todos os documentos disponíveis sobre a Corinto romana entre os séculos 1AEC e 2EC, em tradução inglesa, seguida de comentários. As contribuições da arqueologia e a discussão dos aspectos histórico-sociais oferecem um quadro vívido e realista da Corinto romana, que foi um dos antigos centros cristãos.Só não dou as 5 estrelas, porque considero que uma tal edição deveria trazer os textos originais em colunas paralelas. Além disso, mais material fotográfico do sítio arqueológico deveria ser adicionado.

The first smirk came when opening the cover " Good News Studies" - I hope to publish for a similarly optimistically named publisher some day. The good news is that it's also a book written by a good scholar. As an archaeologist, I was more interested in the ' archaeology' part than connections with biblical texts or figures (I'll admit to have mostly skipped over this). I was looking more for references on Corinthian bronze and the texts that mention them. This is a very informative little book, the writing style made me smile at times ...it for some reason works on my sense of humor. For the information I needed, I found it a product of good scholarship and helped me to find references (that I checked) that I otherwise would have overlooked.

I recently visited Corinth and wanted to learn more about its role in the Early Church; this book is a great resource.

Very Happy

(My comment is on the printing quality of the book NOT on the book's content per se.)Extremely poor printing. This is a defective item in this state (IMO).Printing is off by a page so that page numbers are located on the inside of the book, near the binding. Also several key sketches/diagrams are pixelated and of such poor quality that you cannot read them.