The New Testament is a book of great significance in Western
culture yet is often inaccessible to students because the modern
world differs so significantly from the ancient Mediterranean one
in which it was written. It is imperative to develop a
cross-cultural understanding of the values of the ancient
Mediterranean society from which the New Testament arose in order
to fully appreciate the documents and the communities that they
represent.
Dietmar Neufeld and Richard E. DeMaris bring together biblical
scholars with expertise in the social sciences to develop
interpretative models for understanding such values as
collectivism, kinship, memory, ethnicity, and honour, and to
demonstrate how to apply these models to the New Testament texts.
Kinship is illuminated by analysis of the Holy Family as well as to
early Christian organisations; gender through a study of Paul 's
view of women; and landscape and spatiality through a discussion of
Jesus of Nazareth. This book is the ideal companion to study of the
New Testament.
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