The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels
Wolfgang Stegemann is Rektor and Professor of New Testament at the Augustana Hochschule, Neuendettelsau, Germany; he is the co-author of The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century (Fortress Press, 1999).Bruce J. Malina is Professor of New Testament at Creighton University, author of The Social Gospel of Jesus (Fortress Press, 2000) and co-author of Social Science Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Fortress Press, 2000).Gerd Theissen is Professor of New Testament at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and the author of The Religion of the Earliest Churches (Fortress Press, 1999).