The social setting of Jesus and the Gospels
By: edited by Wolfgang Stegemann, Bruce J. Malina, Gerd Theissen.
Contributors: Stegemann, Wolfgang, 1945-; Malina, Bruce J.; Theissen, Gerd.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Jesus Christ.; Bible. N.T. Gospels -- Social scientific criticism.; Sociology, Biblical.; Jews -- Social life and customs -- To 70 A.D.; Palestine -- Social life and customs -- To 70 A.D.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Social-scientific methods in historical Jesus research / Bruce J. Malina; title: Ethnocentrism and historical questions about Jesus / Richard L. Rohrbaugh; title: The contextual ethics of Jesus / Wolfgang Stegemann; title: Jesus as fatherless child / Andries van Aarde; title: Jesus heals the hemorrhaging woman / Stuart L. Love; title: Altered states of consciousness in the synoptics / John J. Pilch; title: Jesus and the demoniacs / Christian Strecker; title: The baptism of Jesus : a ritual-critical approach / Richard E. DeMaris; title: The politics of exoricsm / Santiago Guijarro; title: The historical Jesus and honor reversal at the table / S. Scott Bartchy; title: Jesus and the reduction of intergroup conflict / Philip F. Esler; title: The plague of uncleanness? : The ancient illness construct "issue of blood" in Luke 8:43-48 / Annette Weissenrieder; title: The political dimension of Jesus' activities / Gerd Theissen; title: The political Jesus : discipleship and disengagement / T. Raymond Hobbs; title: Jesus and the social bandits / K.C. Hanson; title: The Jesus movement and network analysis / Dennis C. Duling; title: Money in the moral universe of the New testament / Douglas E. Oakman; title: Gifts, tributes, and offerings / Gary Stansell; title: The Gospels in comparison with the Pauline letters : what we can learn from social-scientific models / Albert Verdoodt.