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'''Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches ''' (2002) is a volume edited by [[Anthony J Blasi]], [[Paul-André Turcotte]], and [[Jean Duhaime]]. 

==Abstract ==

==Editions and translations==
Published in Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press,

==Table of contents==
*Social sciences studying formative Christian phenomena : a creative movement / David G. Horrell 
*Major social scientific theories : origins, development, and contributions / Paul-André Turcotte 
*General methodological perspective / Anthony J. Blasi 
*Archaeological and architectural issues and the question of demographic and urban forms / Carolyn Osiek 
*An illustration of historical inquiry : histories of Jesus and Matthew I.1-25 / Ritva H. Williams 
*Literary source and redaction criticism / Steven L. Bridge 
*Statistical textual analysis : a special technique / Robert A. Wortham 
*Aspects of rhetorical analysis applied to New Testament texts / Ernst R. Wendland 
*Structuralism and symbolic universes : Second Temple Judaism and the early Christian movement / Peter Staples 
*Early Christianity as an unorganized ecumenical religious movement / Frederick Bird 
*Jesus and Palestinian social protest : archaeological and literary perspectives / Peter Richardson and Douglas Edwards 
*Civilizational encounters in the development of early Christianity / Donald A. Nielsen 
*Early Christian culture as interaction / Anthony J. Blasi 
*"Becoming Christian" : solidifying Christian identity and content / David G. Horrell 
*Sociological insights into the development of Christian leadership roles and community formation / Howard Clark Kee 
*Establishing social distance between Christians and both Jews and pagans / Jack T. Sanders 
*Connections with elites in the world of the early Christians / Philip A. Harland 
*Government and public law in Galilee, Judaea, Hellenistic cities, and the Roman Empire / John W. Marshall and Russell Martin 
*Persecution / Harold Remus 
*Vulnerable power : the Roman empire challenged by the early Christians / Warren Carter 
*The limits of ethnic categories / Nicola Denzey 
*The economy of first-century Palestine : state of the scholarly discussion / Philip A. Harland 
*Modes and relations of production / [[Dimitris J. Kyrtatas]] 
*What would you do for a living? / [[David A. Fiensy]] 
*Conflicting bases of identity in early Christianity: the example of Paul / [[Nicholas H. Taylor]]
*Dread of the community: a psychoanalytical study of fratricidal conflict in the context of first-century Palestine / [[Richard K. Fenn]]
*Conversion in early Christianity / [[Jack T. Sanders]]

==External links==
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