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Modelling Early Christianity: Social-Scientific Studies of the New Testament in its Context
Contributor(s): Esler, Philip (Editor)
ISBN: 0415129818     ISBN-13: 9780415129817
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $52.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 1995
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Annotation: Explores the fascinating and foreign social context of first century Palestine and the Greco-Roman East, in which the Chrstian faith was first proclaimed and the New Testament written, so enabling a better understanding of the texts.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament
- Religion | Reference
- History | Ancient - General
Dewey: 225.6
LCCN: 95001434
Lexile Measure: 1440
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.13 lbs) 368 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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Modelling Early Christianity explores the intriguing foreign social context of first century Palestine and the Greco-Roman East, in which the Christian faith was first proclaimed and the New Testament documents were written. It demonstrates that a sophisticated analysis of the context is essential in order to understand the original meaning of the texts.
The contributors examine social themes such as early Christian group formation, the centrality of kinship and honour and the economic setting. They offer a wealth of novel and socially realistic interpretations which make sense of the texts. At the same time, Modelling Early Christianity contains significant new ideas on the relationship between social-scientific and literary-critical analysis, the theoretical justification for model-use and the way these new approaches can fertilise contemporary Christian theology.