Author: Dietmar Neufeld
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135263019
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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The New Testament is a book of great significance in Western culture yet is often inaccessible to students because the modern world differs so significantly from the ancient Mediterranean one in which it was written. Here, the authors develop interpretative models for understanding such values as collectivism and kinship.
Author: Jerome H. Neyrey
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 9780801047367
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Social World of the New Testament: Insights and Models surveys essential contributions made by leading scholars of the social-scientific approach to New Testament studies. Including important essays by Bruce J. Malina and John J. Pilch, among others, this book acts as a comprehensive collection of the most important essays and articles in the field. Included are topics vital to the social scientific interpretation of the New Testament, organized under three headings: INSTITUTIONS • Kinship: All in the Family: Kinship in Agrarian Roman Palestine--K. C. Hanson • The Patron-Client Institution: God in the Letter of James: Patron or Benefactor?--Alicia Batten • Economics: Jesus and Agrarian Palestine: The Factor of Debt--Douglas E. Oakman CULTURE • Honor and Shame: Loss of Wealth, Loss of Family, Loss of Honor: The Cultural Context of the Original Makarisms in Q--Jerome H. Neyrey, SJ • Purity: The Epistle of James in Rhetorical and Social-Scientific Perspective: Holiness-Wholeness and Patterns of Replication-- John H. Elliott • Social Location: Was Jesus a Peasant: Implications for Reading the Jesus Tradition (Luke 10:30-35)--Douglas E. Oakman • Social Location: The Social Location of the Markan Audience--Richard L. Rohrbaugh • Gender: Who Should Be Called "Father"? Paul of Tarsus between the Jesus Tradition and Patria Potestas--S. Scott Bartchy • Space: "Teaching You in Public and from House to House" (Acts 20:20): Unpacking a Cultural Stereotype--Jerome H. Neyrey, SJ • Healing: Healing in Luke-Acts--John J. Pilch • Evil Eye: Paul, Galatians, and the Evil Eye-- John H. Elliott • Limited Good: "He Must Increase, I Must Decrease"(John 3:30): A Cultural and Social Interpretation--Richard L. Rohrbaugh and Jerome H. Neyrey MODAL PERSONALITY • Modal Personality: Ancient Mediterranean Persons in Cultural Perspective: Portrait of Paul--Jerome H. Neyrey, SJ and Bruce J. Malina
Author: Jerome H. Neyrey
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN: 1598561286
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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This work surveys essential contributions made by leading scholars of the social-scientific approach to New Testament studies.
Author: Bruce J. Malina
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664222956
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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A classroom standard for two decades, The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology has introduced students to both the New Testament and the social-scientific study of the New Testament. This revised and expanded third edition offers new chapters on envy and the Jesus movement, updates chapters from earlier editions, augments the bibliography, and offers student study questions.
Author: Joel B. Green
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 1441240543
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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This volume addresses the most important issues related to the study of New Testament writings. Two respected senior scholars have brought together a team of distinguished specialists to introduce the Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman backgrounds necessary for understanding the New Testament and the early church. Contributors include renowned scholars such as Lynn H. Cohick, David A. deSilva, James D. G. Dunn, and Ben Witherington III. The book includes seventy-five photographs, fifteen maps, numerous tables and charts, illustrations, and bibliographies. All students of the New Testament will value this reliable, up-to-date, comprehensive textbook and reference volume on the New Testament world.
Author: Bruce J. Malina
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134757654
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Social World of Jesus and the Gospels provides the reader with a set of possible scenarios for reading the New Testament: How did first-century persons think about themselves and others? Did they think Jesus was charismatic?
Author: Sabine R. Huebner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108470254
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Explores the socio-economic background of people in the New Testament using papyrological evidence from Roman Egypt.
Author: Dietmar Neufeld
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567062023
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Having established the context of mockery and shame in Ancient Mediterranean cultures, Dietmar Neufeld shows how Mark presented Jesus as a person with a sense of honour and with a sense of shame, willing to accept the danger of being visible and the mockery it attracted. Neufeld also considers the social functions of ridicule/mockery more broadly as strategies of social sanction, leading to a better understanding of how social, religious, and political practices and discourse variously succeeded or failed in Mark. Finally, Neufeld investigates the author of Mark's preoccupation with 'secrecy', showing that his disposition to secrecy in his narrative heightened when the dangers of scorn and ridicule from crowds or persons became pressing concerns. In a fiercely competitive literary environment where mocking and being mocked were ever present dangers, Mark, in his pursuit of authority gains it by establishing a reputation of possessing authentic, secret knowledge. In short, the so-called secrecy motif is shown to be deployed for specific, strategic reasons that differ from those that have been traditionally advanced.
Author: John Barton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521485937
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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This guide to the state of biblical studies features 20 chapters written by scholars from North America and Britain, and represents both traditional and contemporary points of view.
Author: Shively T. J. Smith
Publisher: SBL Press
ISBN: 1628373180
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Shively T. J. Smith reconsiders what is most distinct, troubling, and potentially thrilling about the often overlooked and dismissed book of 2 Peter. Using the rhetorical strategies of nineteenth-century African American women, including Ida B. Wells, Jarena Lee, Anna Julia Cooper, and others, Smith redefines the use of biblical citations, the language of justice and righteousness, and even the matter of pseudonymity in 2 Peter. She approaches 2 Peter as an instance of Christian cultural rhetoric that forges a particular kind of community identity and behavior. This pioneering study considers how 2 Peter cultivates the kind of human relations and attitudes that speak to the values of moral people seeking justice in the past as well as today.
