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Phoebe: Patron and Emissary (Pauls Social Network) by Joan Cecelia Campbell, CSM, PhD is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Human beings are embedded in a set of social relations. A social network is one way of conceiving that set of relations in terms of a number of persons connected to one another by varying degrees of relatedness. In the early Jesus group documents featuring Paul and coworkers, it takes little effort to envision the apostle's collection of friends and friends of friends that is the Pauline network. The persons who constituted that network are the focus of this set of brief books. For Christians of the Western tradition, these persons are significant ancestors in faith. While each of them is worth knowing by themselves, it is largely because of their standing within that web of social relations woven about and around Paul that they are of lasting interest. Through this series we hope to come to know those persons in ways befitting their first-century Mediterranean culture. Imagine trying to find a window into the life of an individual who lived approximately two thousand years ago in a culture vastly different from our own. Consider the added difficulty when that individual is a woman and the only written record of her consists of two biblical verses (Rom 16:1-2). In this volume Joan
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- Author
- Joan Cecelia Campbell, CSM, PhD
- Publisher
- Liturgical Press 320-322;Liturgical Press, Made available through hoopla
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780814652817
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Memoir, Christian
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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