Handbook of Early Christianity Social Science Approaches,9780759100152

Handbook of Early Christianity Social Science Approaches

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ISBN13: 9780759100152
ISBN10: 0759100152
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-08-27
Publisher(s): AltaMira Press
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Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Board of Editors xiii
About the Contributors xv
List of Abbreviations
xxi
Part I: General Perspective
Social Sciences Studying Formative Christian Phenomena: A Creative Movement
3(26)
David G. Horrell
Major Social Scientific Theories: Origins, Development, and Contributions
29(32)
Paul-Andre Turcotte
General Methodological Perspective
61(22)
Anthony J. Blasi
Part II: Special Methods
Archaeological and Architectural Issues and the Question of Demographic and Urban Forms
83(22)
Carolyn Osiek
An Illustration of Historical Inquiry: Histories of Jesus and Matthew I.I--25
105(20)
Ritva H. Williams
Literary Source and Redaction Criticism
125(22)
Steven L. Bridge
Statistical Textual Analysis: A Special Technique
147(22)
Robert A. Wortham
Aspects of Rhetorical Analysis Applied to New Testament Texts
169(28)
Ernst R. Wendland
Structuralism and Symbolic Universes: Second Temple Judaism and the Early Christian Movement
197(28)
Peter Staples
Part III: Contexts and Emergence of the Jesus Movement and Early Christianity
Early Christianity as an Unorganized Ecumenical Religious Movement
225(22)
Frederick Bird
Jesus and Palestinian Social Protest: Archaeological and Literary Perspectives
247(20)
Peter Richardson
Douglas Edwards
Civilizational Encounters in the Development of Early Christianity
267(24)
Donald A. Nielsen
Early Christian Culture as Interaction
291(18)
Anthony J. Blasi
``Becoming Christian'': Solidifying Christian Identity and Content
309(28)
David G. Horrell
Sociological Insights into the Development of Christian Leadership Roles and Community Formation
337(24)
Howard Clark Kee
Establishing Social Distance between Christians and Both Jews and Pagans
361(24)
Jack T. Sanders
Part IV: Power, Inequality, and Difference
Connections with Elites in the World of the Early Christians
385(24)
Philip A. Harland
Government and Public Law in Galilee, Judaea, Hellenistic Cities, and the Roman Empire
409(22)
John W. Marshall
Russell Martin
Persecution
431(22)
Harold Remus
Vulnerable Power: The Roman Empire Challenged by the Early Christians
453(36)
Warren Carter
The Limits of Ethnic Categories
489(22)
Nicola Denzey
Part V: Economic Questions
The Economy of First-Century Palestine: State of the Scholarly Discussion
511(18)
Philip A. Harland
Modes and relations of Production
529(26)
Dimitris J. Kyrtatas
What Would You Do for a Living?
555(22)
David A. Fiensy
Part VI: Psycho-Social Approaches and Phenomena
Conflicting Bases of Identity in Early Christianity: The Example of Paul
577(22)
Nicholas H. Taylor
Dread of the Community: A Psychoanalytical Study of Fratricidal Conflict in the Context of First-Century Palestine
599(20)
Richard K. Fenn
Conversion in Early Christianity
619(24)
Jack T. Sanders
References 643(62)
Bibliography 705(48)
Jean Duhaime
Indexes
Author Index
753(10)
Biblical References Index
763(18)
Subject Index
781

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