Handbook of Early Christianity Social Science

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Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Board of Editors

xiii

About the Contributors

xv

List of Abbreviations

xxi

Part I: General Perspective

Social Sciences Studying Formative Christian Phenomena: A Creative Movement

3

(26)

David G. Horrell

Major Social Scientific Theories: Origins, Development, and Contributions

29

(32)

Paul-Andre Turcotte

General Methodological Perspective

61

(22)

Anthony J. Blasi

Part II: Special Methods

Archaeological and Architectural Issues and the Question of Demographic and Urban Forms

83

(22)

Carolyn Osiek

An Illustration of Historical Inquiry: Histories of Jesus and Matthew I.I--25

105

(20)

Ritva H. Williams

Literary Source and Redaction Criticism

125

(22)

Steven L. Bridge

Statistical Textual Analysis: A Special Technique

147

(22)

Robert A. Wortham

Aspects of Rhetorical Analysis Applied to New Testament Texts

169

(28)

Ernst R. Wendland

Structuralism and Symbolic Universes: Second Temple Judaism and the Early Christian Movement

197

(28)

Peter Staples

Part III: Contexts and Emergence of the Jesus Movement and Early Christianity

Early Christianity as an Unorganized Ecumenical Religious Movement

225

(22)

Frederick Bird

Jesus and Palestinian Social Protest: Archaeological and Literary Perspectives

247

(20)

Peter Richardson

Douglas Edwards

Civilizational Encounters in the Development of Early Christianity

267

(24)

Donald A. Nielsen

Early Christian Culture as Interaction

291

(18)

Anthony J. Blasi

``Becoming Christian'': Solidifying Christian Identity and Content

309

(28)

David G. Horrell

Sociological Insights into the Development of Christian Leadership Roles and Community Formation

337

(24)

Howard Clark Kee

Establishing Social Distance between Christians and Both Jews and Pagans

361

(24)

Jack T. Sanders

Part IV: Power, Inequality, and Difference

Connections with Elites in the World of the Early Christians

385

(24)

Philip A. Harland

Government and Public Law in Galilee, Judaea, Hellenistic Cities, and the Roman Empire

409

(22)

John W. Marshall

Russell Martin

Persecution

431

(22)

Harold Remus

Vulnerable Power: The Roman Empire Challenged by the Early Christians

453

(36)

Warren Carter

The Limits of Ethnic Categories

489

(22)

Nicola Denzey

Part V: Economic Questions

The Economy of First-Century Palestine: State of the Scholarly Discussion

511

(18)

Philip A. Harland

Modes and relations of Production

529

(26)

Dimitris J. Kyrtatas

What Would You Do for a Living?

555

(22)

David A. Fiensy

Part VI: Psycho-Social Approaches and Phenomena

Conflicting Bases of Identity in Early Christianity: The Example of Paul

577

(22)

Nicholas H. Taylor

Dread of the Community: A Psychoanalytical Study of Fratricidal Conflict in the Context of First-Century Palestine

599

(20)

Richard K. Fenn

Conversion in Early Christianity

619

(24)

Jack T. Sanders

References

643

(62)

Bibliography

705

(48)

Jean Duhaime

Indexes

Author Index

753

(10)

Biblical References Index

763

(18)

Subject Index

781

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