Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible: Essays by the Context Group in Honor of Bruce J. Malina (Biblical Interpretation) - Hardcover

Pilch, John

9789004120563: Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible: Essays by the Context Group in Honor of Bruce J. Malina (Biblical Interpretation)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004120564 ISBN 13: 9789004120563

Publisher: Brill, 2000

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.
These essays reflect The Context Group’s more than twenty years of collaborative experience in researching the cultural context of the Bible. New insights are built on the solidly established foundations of their earlier cross-cultural studies.
Readers will find the individual essays enlightening and challenging. Taken as a whole they form a valuable resource and a stimulating and helpful aid to further study.

John J. Pilch, Ph.D., a founding member of The Context Group, is Professor of Biblical Literature at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

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John J. Pilch, Ph.D., a founding member of The Context Group, is Professor of Biblical Literature at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, and the author of articles and books including The Cultural Dictionary of the Bible (Liturgical Press) and Healing in the New Testament: Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology (Fortress Press).

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