Title: Modelling 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.
Subjects: Bible, Social scientific criticism, Christian sociology, Biblical Sociology, Congresses, History, Critique, interprétation, Congrès, Sociologie religieuse, Nieuwe Testament, Church history, 11.47 cultural-historical background of the New Testament, Sociologie, Criticism, interpretation, Histoire, Sociale aspecten, Early church, Critique sociale, Christianisme, Social scientific criticism of sacred works, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t., Sociology, biblical, Christian sociology, history, RELIGION, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation, New Testament
Time periods: Early church, ca. 30-600