TY  - BOOK
AU  - Neufeld,Dietmar
AU  - DeMaris,Richard E.
TI  - Understanding the social world of the New Testament
SN  - 0415775825
U1  - 225.8301 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Bible
KW  - New Testament
KW  - Social scientific criticism
KW  - Israel
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Palestine
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Collectivism in Mediterranean culture / Bruce J. Malina -- Kinship and family in the New Testament world / Margaret Y. MacDonald -- Constructions of gender in the Roman imperial world / Carolyn Osiek and Jennifer Pouya -- Memory theory: cultural and cognitive approaches to the Gospel tradition / Alan Kirk -- Ethnicity and Paul's Letter to the Romans / Dennis C. Duling -- Landscape and spatiality: placing Jesus / Halvor Moxnes -- Honor: core value in the Biblical world / Richard L. Rohrbaugh -- Altered states of consciousness: visions, spirit possession, sky journeys / Pieter F. Craffert -- Jesus's healing activity: politcal acts? / John J. Pilch -- Social stratification and patronage in Ancient Mediterranean societies / Eric C. Stewart -- Brokerage: Jesus as social entrepreneur / Alicia Batten -- Urban structure and patronage: Christ followers in Corinth / Peter Oakes -- Ancient economy and the New Testament / David A. Fiensy -- Purity, dirt, anomalies, and abominations / Ritva H. Williams -- Ritual and Christian origins / Risto Uro
N2  - 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
ER  -