Portraits of Paul
Subtitle: an archaeology of ancient personality
By: Bruce J. Malina and Jerome H. Neyrey.
Contributors: Neyrey, Jerome H., 1940-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Louisville, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Paul, the Apostle, Saint.; Rhetoric in the Bible.; Prosopography.; Biography -- To 500.
Description: How did ancient persons understand themselves, other people, and the world around them? Is there a marked contrast between their understandings of "self" and "other" and the way modern Westerners define those concepts? Bruce Malina and Jerome Neyrey focus on the figure of Paul to provide a comprehensive investigation of how one man was perceived in the ancient world. Drawing on primary sources from antiquity, as well as lessons from cultural anthropology, the authors help provide a fuller understanding of the person of Paul and his world. By doing so, they offer readers a new, and more balanced, way to approach the New Testament.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and indexes