Synopses & Reviews
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
Synopsis
Contributions by internationally known scholars from the United States, Germany, Scotland, Spain, and Canada move beyond many of the impasses in historical Jesus research. Includes essays using social sciences, social history, and traditional historical methods.
Table of Contents
Introductory perspectives --Social-scientific methods in historical Jesus research /Bruce J. Malina --Ethnocentrism and historical questions about Jesus /Richard L. Rohrbaugh --The contextual ethics of Jesus /Wolfgang Stegemann --Social-psychological perspectives --Jesus as fatherless child /Andries van Aarde --Jesus heals the hemorrhaging woman /Stuart L. Love --Altered states of consciousness in the synoptics /John J. Pilch --Jesus and the demoniacs /Christian Strecker --Social-boundary concerns --The baptism of Jesus : a ritual-critical approach /Richard E. DeMaris --The politics of exoricsm /Santiago Guijarro --The historical Jesus and honor reversal at the table /S. Scott Bartchy --Jesus and the reduction of intergroup conflict /Philip F. Esler --The plague of uncleanness? The ancient illness construct "issue of blood" in Luke 8:43-48 /Annette Weissenrieder --Politics and political religion --The political dimension of Jesus' activities /Gerd Theissen --The political Jesus : discipleship and disengagement /T. Raymond Hobbs --Jesus and the social bandits /K.C. Hanson --The Jesus movement and network analysis /Dennis C. Duling --Politics and political economy --Money in the moral universe of the New testament /Douglas E. Oakman --Gifts, tributes, and offerings /Gary Stansell --An overview of the task --The Gospels in comparison with the Pauline letters : what we can learn from social-scientific models /Albert Verdoodt.