James R. Harrison

Australian New Testament scholar specializing in Pauline studies and the Greco-Roman context of early Christianity; known for work on Paul’s language of grace and on Roman imperial ideology, and for co-editing The First Urban Churches as well as authoring Paul and the Imperial Authorities at Thessalonica and Rome.

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  1. 1. The First Urban Churches 6

    A collection of interdisciplinary essays that reconstructs the social, political, and religious environments of the earliest Christ-groups in key Greco-Roman cities, integrating archaeology, epigraphy, and close textual analysis to illuminate how assemblies met in domestic and civic spaces, navigated patronage and status, engaged local and imperial cults, organized leadership and charity, and forged moral identities. By situating New Testament texts within concrete urban contexts, it offers fresh case studies that refine understandings of mission, worship, conflict, and community formation in the first centuries.

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