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Social-science commentary on the book of Acts / Bruce J. Malina, John J. Pilch.
Van Pelt Library BS2625.53 .M34 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malina, Bruce J.
- Series:
- Social-science commentary
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Acts--Commentaries.
- Bible.
- Bible. Acts--Social scientific criticism.
- Bible. Acts.
- Social scientific criticism of sacred works.
- Genre:
- Commentaries.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 245 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Two leading scholars in the social-scientific study of the New Testament world turn their lenses on the Book of Acts in this latest addition to Fortress Press's unique Social-Science Commentary series. Drawing on a wealth of social-science scholarship, Bruce J. Malina and John J. Pilch provide unprecedented insight into Acts as a document of the fourth generation of the Jesus movement and the third generation of Pauline Christianity. Like earlier volumes in the Social-Science Commentary series, this volume situates Acts squarely in the cultural matrix of the first-century Mediterranean world, elaborating its codes of patron and client, mediatorship, honor and shame, healing and sickening, wizardry and witchcraft accusations, and the understanding of the Spirit of God as well as deities and demons as personal causes of significant events.
- The Social-Science Commentary pioneers an alternative commentary genre, providing in this volume a new translation of the Book of Acts and cultural notes on specific passages. Like previous volumes in the series, Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Acts also provides essential "reading scenarios" on specific cultural phenomena in the Book of Acts, including sky journeys (Acts 1), altered states of consciousness (Acts 10), and the portrayal of the apostles as change agents and the communication of innovation (Acts 15). This volume highlights the story of Paul, at the heart of the Book of Acts, as reflecting the concerns and interest of a third-generation community.
- Contents:
- Jesus' first command : to the eleven (twelve)
- their activities among Israelite majority populations
- Jesus' second command : to Saul/Paul
- his activities among Israelite minority populations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243).
- ISBN:
- 9780800638450
- 080063845X
- OCLC:
- 156832291
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