Modelling Early Christianity: Social-Scientific Studies of the New Testament in its Context

by Philip Francis Esler

Book Overview

Modelling Early Christianity explores the intriguing foreign social context of first century Palestine and the Greco-Roman East, in which the Christian faith was first proclaimed and the New Testament documents were written. It demonstrates that a sophisticated analysis of the context is essential in order to understand the original meaning of the texts.
The contributors examine social themes such as early Christian group formation, the centrality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041512980X
• ISBN13: 9780415129800
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"