Burial customs and the pollution of death in ancient Rome: procedures and paradoxes by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“… The Roman attitude towards the dead in the period spanning the end of the Republic and the high point of the Empire was determined mainly by religious views on the (im)mortality of the soul and the concept of the “pollution of death”. …”
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FOUR CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING THE SOCIALLY MARGINAL IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY REFLECTED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT by I.C. Berg

“…This phenomenon was endemic throughout the imperial Roman world, which was the immediate sociopolitical context of early Christianity. …”
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Probati auctores by Christoph H. F. Meyer

“…On the one hand there was an interest in a universal and »Roman« view of canon law, on the other hand the Roman Curia used the probati auctores as a means of influencing the process of opinion-formation in canon law. …”
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Die verhouding tussen kerk en ??á?? in Pauliniese perspektief by J. A. du Rand

“…in 1 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Romans, Galatians and Ephesians are investigated to illustrate the remarkable relationship between ???????? …”
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Power and authority in Matthew's gospel by F. P. Viljoen

“… Besides the strenuous relation of Matthew’s community with non-Christian kinfolk, his text also reveals an underlying conflict with Roman Imperial ideology. Herod, Antipas and Pilate specifically impersonate this foreign domination. …”
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Muchacha desconocida o la imposibilidad de una ética del compromiso by Lourdes C. Pacheco Ladrón de Guevara, Fabiola González Román

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La historia oral y la interdisciplinariedad. Retos y perspectivas. by Rosario Román Pérez

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Naidoo, Marily (Ed.), Between the real and the ideal. Ministerial formation in South African churches by Lyzette Hoffman

“…The co-authors write from various church denominations’ perspectives on theological training: Dutch Reformed churches, Uniting Reformed church, Anglican Church of Southern Africa, South African Presbyterian tradition, Baptist tradition, Methodist Church of Southern Africa, Lutheran tradition, Roman Catholic tradition, Charismatic context, and African Spiritual Churches. …”
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substance use and recidivism of intimate partner violence in Peru: A cross-sectional study. by Victor Roman-Lazarte Sr., Enrique Moncada-Mapelli, Maryorie K Galeas-Torre, Luz A Roman, Maricela L Marcelo-Armas

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Proclaiming the gospel in Macedonia, Achaia and in every place. Missions and 1 Thessalonians 1:6-8 by P. G. R. de Villiers

“…Paul is often regarded as the zealous missionary who took the rural, Palestinian gospel of Jesus to key cities in the Roman Empire and thus contributed decisively to the founding of Christianity. …”
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Die ouderling in twee kerkordes in die Dordtse tradisie by P. J. Strauss

“…This is why the elder in the Calvinistic-Dordt tradition is a worthy and winning opponent of the Roman Catholic pope. …”
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Het die Reformasie die leer gered en aanbidding verloor? by B. Spoelstra

“…He restricted this celebration to four times a year. By contrast, Roman and Eastern Orthodox Churches thrived because liturgy served their confessions of faith. …”
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Na marginesie artykułu Hipoteza – krzywa wiedzy dziecka by Roman Dolata

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A 50-spin surface acoustic wave Ising machine by Artem Litvinenko, Roman Khymyn, Roman Ovcharov, Johan Åkerman

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The interpretation of the New Testament as the study of texts and contexts: hermeneutics, identities, communities by J. Punt

“…The latter also establishes the context, as the social setting of Paul’s letters with their rhetorical use of Othering was the Roman Empire with its identity politics. The rhetorical power of Paul and his scriptural texts contributed to discursive formations, since a strong sense of being and identity was negotiated through these texts, even when admitting that such formations are always in process, mutating and reformatting. …”
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Capital punishment or capitol forgiveness? The enduring message of Dead Man Walking by Frederick Hale

“…Although this question is treated in Dead Man Walking in an explicitly Roman Catholic context in the United States of America, the ethical and spiritual dimensions of its treatment on the screen transcend geographical and denominational borders and are particularly relevant to South Africa, where escalating violence in recent years has engendered a callousness and spirit of vengefulness in many quarters and where public support for the death penalty is strong. …”
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New Inscriptions from Nikaia XVII by Hüseyin Sami ÖZTÜRK, Ali Oğuz BOZKURT

“…These funerary inscriptions are important in that they introduce us to new names that were previously unknown in the region, and they are dated mainly to the IInd-IIIrd centuries AD, the Roman Imperial period. A number of names previously documented in Anatolia or Greece were documented for the first time in the territory of Nicaea. …”
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Christian prisoners: fifth and sixth century inscriptions from Corinth by C. Breytenbach

“…Inscriptiones Corinthi, regionis Corinthiae is available, the evidence on Christian prisoners in the later Roman Empire will be easily accessible.2 The texts consist of graffiti on limestone floor tiles. …”
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Ancient Art in the Collection of the National Museum in Gdańsk by Grzegorz First

“…This collection includes Egyptian, Etruscan, Roman, and Coptic artifacts of uncertain provenance and acquisition history. …”
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The Contributions of Cultural Entertainment Groups to Tourism in Kabale District. by Ahumuza, Shallot

“…The past life of a typical Roman was filled with so much fun and enjoyment so the need to input different activities to help them get the best out of their social lives was paramount for the king at that time. …”
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