Tertullian the African : An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian's Context and Identities
Who was Tertullian, and what can we know about him? This work explores his social identities, focusing on his North African milieu. Theories from the discipline of social/cultural anthropology, including kinship, class and ethnicity, are accommodated and applied to selections of Tertullian's writing...
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De Gruyter
2007
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