Understanding the Social World of the New Testament (2010 Neufeld / DeMaris), edited volume

Understanding the Social World of the New Testament (2010) is a volume edited by Dietmar Neufeld, and Richard E. DeMaris.

Editions and translations

Published in London, and New York, NY: Routledge, 2010.

Table of contents

• Collectivism in Mediterranean culture / Bruce J. Malina

• Kinship and family in the New Testament world / Margaret Y. MacDonald

• Constructions of gender in the Roman imperial world / Carolyn Osiek and Jennifer Pouya --

• Memory theory: cultural and cognitive approaches to the Gospel tradition / Alan Kirk

• Ethnicity and Paul's Letter to the Romans / Dennis C. Duling

• Landscape and spatiality: placing Jesus / Halvor Moxnes

• Honor: core value in the Biblical world / Richard L. Rohrbaugh

• Altered states of consciousness: visions, spirit possession, sky journeys / Pieter F. Craffert

• Jesus's healing activity: politcal acts? / John J. Pilch

• Social stratification and patronage in Ancient Mediterranean societies / Eric C. Stewart

• Brokerage: Jesus as social entrepreneur / Alicia Batten

• Urban structure and patronage: Christ followers in Corinth / Peter Oakes

• Ancient economy and the New Testament / David A. Fiensy

• Purity, dirt, anomalies, and abominations / Ritva H. Williams

• Ritual and Christian origins / Risto Uro

External links

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