Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts

Hanson and Oakman's award-winning and illuminating volume has become a widely used and cited introduction to the social context of Jesus and the early Jesus movement. This second edition updates all the discussions in light of more recent scholarship, improves clarity and readability of diagrams and maps, provides additional diagrams and images to enhance the book for student use, and includes new classroom resources, for professors and students, on a Companion Web site.

Along with an overview of the ancient Mediterranean worldview, Palestine in the Time of Jesus explores major domains and institutions of Roman Palestine: kinship, politics, economy, and religion.

K. C. Hanson (PhD Claremont Graduate School) is editor in chief at Wipf and Stock Publishers (Eugene, Oregon), after having taught biblical studies for sixteen years (1982-1998) and working as senior editor for biblical studies at Fortress Press (1998-2005). In addition to writing two volumes in the Proclamation series for Fortress, he compiled and edited seven volumes for Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies. He translated Andre LaCocque's Ruth from the French for the Continental Commentary series (Fortress, 2004) and Renate Bethge's Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Brief Life (Fortress, 2003). He also edited Sigmund Mowinckel's Religion and Cult(Cascade, 2012) and translatedand edited Hermann Gunkel's Elijah, Yahweh, and Baal (Cascade, 2014).

Douglas E. Oakman (PhD Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley) is Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, Washington), where he served as chair of the Religion Department (1996-2003) and then Dean of Humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences (2004-2010). He is the author of Jesus and the Economics of His Day (Mellen, 1986), Jesus and the Peasants (Cascade, 2008), The Political Aims of Jesus (Fortress 2012), and The Radical Jesus (Cascade, 2021).