The Jesus Movement
Subtitle: A Social History of Its First Century
Edition: 1st English-language Ed edition
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780800630096
Subjects: Christianity; History; Christian sociology; Religion - Church History; Women in Christianity; Religion; Jewish sociology; Ancient - General; Biblical Studies - New Testament; Christianity - History - General; Bible - Study - New Testament; Early church, ca. 30-600
Description: "This work by two New Testament scholars is the first comprehensive social history of the earliest churches. Integrating the historical and social data, they locate the ancient Galileans, Judeans, and the Jesus movement in their respective matrices. The Stegemanns deal with such issues as conflict between the messianic communities and the rest of Judaism, religious pluralism, social stratification, group composition, gender division, ancient economics, and urban/rurual distinctions."--BOOK JACKET.