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Article: From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries.(Book Review)
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- Theological Studies
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- December 1, 2004
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FROM PAUL TO VALENTINUS: CHRISTIANS AT ROME IN THE FIRST TWO CENTURIES. By Peter Lampe. Edited by Marshall D. Johnson. Translated from the German by Michael Steinhauser. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003. Pp. xviii + 525. $42.
Scholars investigating the social history of early Roman Christianities will welcome this new translation of the second edition of Peter Lampe's Die stadtromischen Christen in den ersten beiden Jahrhunderten: Untersuchungen zur Sozialgeschichte. More broadly, L.'s method, which uses epigraphic, archeological, and historical evidence to arrive at conclusions of greater or lesser certainty, provides a very useful and exciting model for the study of ...