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Social scientific models for interpreting the Bible : essays by the Context Group in honor of Bruce J. Malina / edited by John J. Pilch.
Van Pelt Library BS521.88 .S63 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Biblical interpretation series 0928-0731 ; v. 53.
- Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; v. 53
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Social scientific criticism.
- Bible.
- Social scientific criticism of sacred works.
- Malina, Bruce J--Bibliography.
- Malina, Bruce J.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.
- Summary:
- Fourteen members of The Context Group honor Bruce J. Malina and his scholarship in this volume by following his consistent example of developing or using explicit social scientific models to interpret documents from the ancient Mediterranean world. Ordinary features of that cultural world such as gossip, reciprocity, a pervasive military presence, the power of women, and becoming a follower of Jesus stand out with greater clarity in the Bible when a reader understands the cultural matrix in which such social dynamics function.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [398-429) and indexes.
- "Publications of Bruce J. Malina" (pages [381]-397).
- ISBN:
- 9004120564
- OCLC:
- 45413631
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