Priscilla
The Life of an Early Christian

What a joy! Witherington takes his decades of New Testament and early church scholarship and tells the story of what it would have been like to be a follower of Jesus in the first century. He does this simply, beautifully, and provoking my from the perspective of Priscilla. I seriously enjoyed this......more

I had been anticipating the new book Priscilla: The Life of an Early Christian by Dr. Ben Witherington III for most of the last year since I first saw it in the IVP catalog. Witherington takes his knowledge as a Professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary and spins a story surrounding......more

This reads like a documented account from an eyewitness, more specifically an elderly Priscilla (Prisca) to her adopted daughter. The letters of Paul and Luke's account in Acts are referred to as just written or being written. There might be some creative liberty but the author has painstakingly res......more

Summary: An imaginative rendering of the story of Priscilla, a companion of Paul, as a dictated narrative recorded by her adopted daughter Julia, as she faces possible trial before a Roman tribunal. Priscilla (or Prisca) is one of those fascinating minor characters we meet in the book of Acts and sev......more