Title: Portraits of Paul
Subtitle: an archaeology of ancient personality
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Prosopography, Rhetoric in the Bible, Biography, Paul, the apostle, saint
People: Paul the Apostle, Saint
Time periods: To 500
LC classification: BS2506 .M355 1996