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In order to interpret historical writings, readers must not employ their modern understanding of the world, but must strive to grasp the perceptions a...
The authors build on their earlier social-scientific works and enhance the highly successful commentary model they developed in their social-scientifi...
Essays by the Context Group in Honor of Bruce J. Malina
Fourteen members of The Context Group honor Bruce J. Malina and his scholarship in this volume by following his consistent example of developing or us...
The Kingdom of God in Mediterranean Perspective
Scholars are agreed that the central metaphor in Jesus' proclamation was the kingdom of God. But what did that phrase mean in the first-century Palest...
Insights from Cultural Anthropology
A classroom standard for two decades, The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology has introduced students to both the New Testament a...
A groundbreaking first social-science commentary on this popular book of the Bible....
Handbook of Biblical Social Values explains the values that guided behavior in biblical times. Over 100 entries cover such topics as freedom, family-c...
Star Visions and Sky Journeys
In a compelling new study based on ancient sources, Malina offers a new reading of Revelation. Malina contends that John the Seer s milieu was one of ...
This work assembles and catalogs the values, conflicts, and mores of ancient Mediterranean culture pertinent to the Fourth Gospel. In many ways, the a...
Practical Models for Biblical Interpretation
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The author of Revelation presents himself as John, the astral seer, who professes faith in the Resurrected Jesus and who belonged to the house of Isra...
The City as Symbol of Life with God
There are two major entities at the close of the book of Revelation that explain the author's understanding of forthcoming life with God: the Celestia...
This latest addition to the Fortress Social-Science Commentaries on New Testament writings illuminates the values, perceptions, and social codes of th...
An Archaeology of Ancient Personality
The authors focus on Paul to discern how ancient persons understood themselves, other people, and the world around them, believing that biblical inter...
The Social-Science Commentary series pioneers an alternative commentary genre, providing in this volume the text of the deutero-Pauline letters and cu...
Protocol of the Forty-eighth Colloquy, 11 March 1984
"Two leading scholars in the social-scientific study of the New Testament world turn their lenses on the Book of Acts in this latest addition....." [f...
Paul's Closest Associate
While most Christians might accurately identify Timothy as an associate of the apostle Paul, they probably conjure up images of Timothy and his relati...
The Manna Tradition in the Palestinian Targums and Its Relationship to the New Testament Writings
The Social Value of Labels in Matthew