Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome have yielded hundreds of wall paintings from domestic buildings. A recent Italian encyclopedia (PPM) published 10,000 pages of domestic frescoes and mosaics, all located in their original spaces. Greek myths and tragedies, especially by Euripides, often retold by Ovid, were visually represented. David Balch presents an interdisciplinary study inquiring what earliest Jews and Christians living, eating, and worshipping in such houses might have been seeing as they read and interpreted scripture and performed core rituals, especially the Eucharist. Further, a recent study of Roman domestic architecture (domus, insulae) suggests new perspectives on the social history of early Christianity.weiterlesen