The Social Origins Of Christian Architecture: Texts And Monuments For The Christian Domus Ecclesiae In Its Environment (Harvard Theological Studies)

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The second volume of a two-volume set assembles important archaeological, documentary, and literary sources for the development of early Christian architecture in the first three centuries. The first two sections relate Christian and non-Christian literary sources to the place and setting of Christian assembly, and present all the early archaeological sites for Christian buildings together with the earliest documentary records in a geographical catalogue. The third section assembles comparable archaeological and documentary data for Diaspora Judaism and Mithraism. Supplemented with site and building plans; archaeological, historical, and geographical appendices; and substantial bibliographical references and archaeological reports. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.