Title: Why did Paul go west?
Description: Addressing the topic of the authority of texts and their transmission, as well as different strategies of narration in ancient texts, Mendels provides extensive treatment of issues such as linearity, emporality and simultaenity of texts.
Subjects: Historiography, Criticism, interpretation, Bible, Jews, History, Judaism, history, post-exilic period, 586 b.c.-210 a.d., Judaism
Time periods: 168 B.C.-135 A.D.