The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels

by Bruce J. Malina, Wolfgang Stegemann, Gerd Theissen

Overview

The context of Jesus, his followers, and the early movementWhat do the social sciences have to contribute to the study of Jesus and the Gospels? This is the fundamental question that these essays all address from analyses of ancient economics to altered states of consciousness, politics, ritual, kinship, and labeling.

Contributors: Bruce J. Malina, Wolfgang Stegemann, Richard L. Rohrbaugh, Ekkehard W. Stegemann, Gerd Theissen, T. Raymond Hobbs, Dennis C. Duling, K.C. Hanson, Philip F. Esler, S. Scott Bartchy, John J. Pilch, Christian Strecker, Richard DeMaris, Stuart L. Love, Jerome H. Neyrey, Douglas E. Oakman, Gary Stansell, Santiago Oporto Guijarro

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800634520
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	10/01/2002
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Bruce J. Malina is professor of new testament at Creighton University, Omaha, and author or coauthor or editor of many influential volumes in New Testament, including several recent Fortress Press titles: Social Science Commentary on the Book of Revelation (2000); Social Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels (2nd edition 2003); Social Science Commentary on the Gospel of John (1998); and The Social Gospel of Jesus (2001).

Wolfgang Stegemann is Rector and Professor of New Testament at the Augustana Hochschule, Neuendettelsau, Germany, and is co-author of The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century (Fortress Press, 1995) and Jesus and the Hope of the Poor (1986). He is co-editor of The God of the Lowly: Socio-historical Interpretations of the Bible (1984) and The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels (Fortress Press, 2001).

Table of Contents

1. Social-Science Methods in Historical Jesus Research

Bruce J. Malina

2. The Contextual Ethos of Jesus

Wolfgang Stegemann

3. Ethnocentrism and Research on the Historical Jesus

Richard L. Rohrbaugh

4. Jesus' Setting within the Judaism of His Time

Ekkehard W. Stegemann

5. Feminist Research on Jesus

Elisabeth Schüsler Fiorenza

6. The Political Dimensions of Jesus' Proclamation

Gerd Theissen

7. Jesus and First-Century Politics: The Military Dimension

T. Raymond Hobbs

8. The Jesus Movement and Its Network

Dennis C. Duling

9. Jesus and the Social Bandits

K. C. Hanson

10. Jesus and the Reduction of Intergroup Conflict

Philip F. Esler

11. Jesus and Honor Reversal at Table

S. Scott Bartchy

12. Jesus and Altered States of Consciousness

John J. Pilch

13. Jesus the Exorcist

Christian Strecker

14. The Baptism of Jesus: A Ritual Analysis

Richard DeMaris

15. Jesus and the Healing of Women

Stuart L. Love

16. Jesus Against the Family

Jerome H. Neyrey

17. The Love of Money or the Curse of Mammon?

Douglas E. Oakman

18. Gift, Tribute, and Offering: The Economics of Presents

Gary Stansell

19. Jesus' Reaction to Hostile Labels

Santiago Oporto Guijarro