Handbook of Early Christianity (2002 Blasi/Turcotte/Duhaime), edited volume

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

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

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