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The Economy of Exile: Financial Pressure, Civic Religion, and Christian Survival in Pergamum

Grace, Daniel J.

The description of Pergamum as the place “where Satan’s throne is” in Revelation 2:13 has commonly been interpreted through the city’s imperial cult, monumental religious landscape, or association with Roman political authority. While these interpretations remain important, they can obscure the economic dimensions…

Biblical Studies & InterpretationView record
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The Trade Routes of the Text: The Economic Micro-History of Early Christian Manuscripts

Grace, Daniel J.

his article examines the economic and material history behind the production and circulation of early Christian manuscripts. It argues that Christian texts did not spread through theology alone, but through networks of papyrus production, copying labour, private patronage, household communities, couriers, merchants, ports,…

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