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Portraits of Paul : an archaeology of ancient personality / Bruce J. Malina and Jerome H. Neyrey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malina, Bruce J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paul, the Apostle, Saint.
- Paul.
- Rhetoric in the Bible.
- Prosopography.
- Biography--To 500.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 271 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- 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 (pages [233]-243) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0664256813
- OCLC:
- 34731319
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