Le milieu de la première épître de Pierre
- Autores: Armand Puig i Tàrrech
- Localización: Revista catalana de teología, ISSN 0210-5551, Vol. 5, Nº. 1, 1980, págs. 95-129
- Idioma: francés
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Resumen
This is the first part of a study uliich sets out to discover the characteristics of the cornmunities to which 1P were directed. These cornrnunities were dispersed in four or five provinces of the Ernpire, corresponding to the present day Anatolia to the north of the Taurus. Their dispersion has compensated by a cornrnon socio-economic factor which appears to have unitel:! thern. They al1 lived in rural areas, in villages. The Christians of 1P were country lolk, peasants and shepherds, not city people. Also the rnajority had been pagans. Regtirding their socio-legal status, alrnost al1 were low class peregrini, living under diffii[.ult conditions by cultivating land belonging to the ruling classes, Rornan or local, wb lived in the cities. This explains the absence of rich people in the cornrnunities. It ;eerns that wornen had an irnportant role in these cornrnunities, and that cases of Cpiristian women married to pagan husbands were cornrnon. Dornestic slaves (oiketai), frequently living in the rnain residentes of the landowners, were also arnongst :he members of the communities. Finally, the cornrnunities display a simple but htrong interna1 organisation. The leaders (presbyteroi) directed the entire life of the community and controlled the funds of the brotherhood.
