The Bible originated in the eastern Mediterranean. The volumes in this series take seriously this social context and employ a variety of historical and social-scientific methods (including cultural anthropology, macrosociology, social psychology) to illuminate the biblical text in this world. Cross-cultural and comparative data play a significant role in these analyses—whether examining particular biblical passages or larger systemic issues.
Series editors: John H. Elliot, Anselm C. Hagedorn, K. C. Hanson, John S. Kloppenborg,Douglas E. Oakman, and Gary Stansell
The short story that we now know as the Gospel according to Mark was written in Greek twenty centuries ago in the context of an agrarian society that had been developing its own characteristics in the...
Adult males did not simply stand up and speak. They needed authorization to exercise public voice. Why should anyone listen to them? In his first four chapters, Luke achieves this for Jesus, a process...
The Radical Jesus offers a companion to the author's previous article collection Jesus and the Peasants. Even more than in Jesus and the Peasants, these eleven chapters sharpen the focus on the political-economic...
An Alternative Subsistence Strategy under Roman Imperial Rule
by K.C. Richardson
$31.00
£27.00
AU$43.00
ISBN: 9781498296526
Pub Date: August 2018
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Beginning with Jesus's ministry in the villages of Galilee and continuing over the course of the first three centuries as the movement expanded geographically and numerically throughout the Roman world,...
Values are culturally specific. This handbook explains select biblical social values in their Mediterranean cultural contexts. Some examples of values are altruism, freedom, family-centeredness, obedience,...
While some of the chapters focus on systemic issues, others probe the depths of individual Gospel passages. The author's keen eye for textual detail, archaeological data, comparative materials, and...
Who do we meet in the stories Jesus told? In The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet, a selection of the parables of Jesus is read using a social-scientific approach. The interest...
As one surveys the scholarship on the canonical letter to the Philippians, one notices the lack of attention to women within many scholars' analyses. To a certain extent, this lack of attention exists...
Studies in the Gospel of Matthew in a Social-Scientific Perspective
by Dennis C. Duling
$49.00
£43.00
AU$69.00
ISBN: 9781606080856
Pub Date: November 2011
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
A Marginal Scribe collects eight studies written over a period of two decades, all of which use social-scientific criticism to interpret the Gospel of Matthew. It prefaces them, first, with a new chapter...
The Gospel of Matthew in Social-Scientific Perspective
by Stuart L. Love
$35.00
£31.00
AU$49.00
ISBN: 9781597528030
Pub Date: January 2009
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
The Gospel of Matthew recounts several interactions between Jesus and "marginal" women. The urban, relatively wealthy community to which Matthew writes faces issues relating to a number of internal...
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