Contributions by internationally known scholars from the United States, Germany, Scotland, Spain, and Canada move beyond many of the impasses in historical Jesus research. Includes essays using social sciences, social history, and traditional historical methods.
The context of Jesus, his followers, and the early movementWhat do the social sciences have to contribute to the study of Jesus and the Gospels? This is the fundamental question that these essays all address - from analyses of ancient economics to altered states of consciousness, politics, ritual, kinship, and labeling.Contributors: Bruce J. Malina, Wolfgang Stegemann, Richard L. Rohrbaugh, Ekkehard W. Stegemann, Gerd Theissen, T. Raymond Hobbs, Dennis C. Duling, K.C. Hanson, Philip F. Esler, S. Scott Bartchy, John J. Pilch, Christian Strecker, Richard DeMaris, Stuart L. Love, Jerome H. Neyrey, Douglas E. Oakman, Gary Stansell, Santiago Oporto Guijarro
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SOCIAL SETTING OF JESUS & THE
Format: Paperback
Pages: 424
Product Weight: 1.29 lbs
Editor: Stegemann, Wolfgang
Editor: Malina, Bruce J.
Editor: Theissen, Gerd
Publication Date: 2002-07-01
Language: English
Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
Dewey Decimal Classification: 226
Number of Units in Package: 1
ISBN: 9780800634520
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