Modelling early Christianity
Subtitle: social-scientific studies of the New Testament in its context
By: edited by Philip F. Esler.
Contributors: Esler, Philip Francis.; St. Andrews Conference on New Testament Interpretation and the Social Sciences (1994)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Bible. N.T. -- Social scientific criticism -- Congresses.; Sociology, Biblical -- Congresses.; Christian sociology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Modeling early Christianity.
Description: Modelling Early Christianity explores the intriguing and foreign social context of first-century Palestine and the Graeco-Roman East, in which the Christian faith was first proclaimed and the New Testament documents were written. It demonstrates that a sophisticated analysis of the context is essential in order to understand the original meaning of the texts.

At the same time, Modelling Early Christianity contains significant new ideas on the relationship between social-scientific and literary-critical analysis, the theoretical justification for model-use, and the way these new approaches can fertilize contemporary Christian theology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-321) and index.
"Revised versions of papers presented at Context and kerygma: The St. Andrews Conference on New Testament Interpretation and the Social Sciences held in St. Andrews [Scotland] from 29 June to 3 July 1994"--P. xiii.