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Walking in Their Sandals - A Guide to First-Century Israelite Ethnic Identity (Paperback)
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Walking in Their Sandals - A Guide to First-Century Israelite Ethnic Identity (Paperback)
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Synopsis: This volume invites readers to walk in Israelite sandals,
that is, to take a journey of the imagination, and to immerse
themselves in the identity, values, and institutions of
first-century CE Israelites with the help of contemporary
social-scientific studies and theories. What emerges is that the
Israelites did not practice a religion. Rather, they were an
ethnos, or as this book describes it, an ethnic identity, who lived
out a particular way of life and culture the customs of the
fathers. It is to belong to a people who obtained their collective
identity, honor, and sense of worth from their socialization and
membership in Israel and from the social convention of loyalty to
their rich cultural tradition. It was to belong to a "world," or
having a perspective on the world with its own quality of
"knowledge," which, among other things, preferred collectivism over
individualism, and orthopraxy over orthodoxy. Endorsements:
"Cromhaut tidily synthesizes Social Identity Theory, Social
Construction of Reality theory, Primordial and Constructionist
theories of ethnicity, the importance of group practices for ethnic
boundary marking, and ethnicity models. He details ancient Israel
as a boundary-marking ethnic group and Paul's offering an
alternative ethnos--new core values and a new, inclusive way of
life. This informed, informative, readable study will engage and
reward both introductory students and advanced scholars." --Dennis
C. Duling Emeritus Professor Canisius College, Buffalo, New York
"Utilizing ethnicity theory and other social sciences with
sophistication and insight, Markus Cromhout challenges many
assumptions of what it meant to be a first-century Judean. In the
process he also questions traditional understandings of the apostle
Paul's entire enterprise, as well as significant aspects of the New
Perspective on Paul. He provides, in addition, an intriguing answer
as to why most Israelites rejected Paul's message. His excellent
summaries are themselves worth the price of the book." --Walter F.
Taylor Jr. Ernest W. and Edith S. Ogram Professor of New Testament
Studies Trinity Lutheran Seminary "Cromhout has written an
absolutely essential book in which he connects central topics of
the New Perspective on Paul with insights about their social and
cultural background within the ancient Mediterranean world. Based
on a complex and well argued socio-cultural model of Israelite
ethnic identity, the book deepens our understanding of Pauline
concepts like 'works of the law, ' 'faith/belief, ' 'righteousness,
' etc., and traces them back to their contemporary discourses."
--Wolfgang Stegemann Augustana-Hochschule, Germany Author
Biography: Markus Cromhout is a Research Associate in the
Department of New Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria.
He is the author of Jesus and Identity: Reconstructing Judean
Ethnicity in Q (Cascade Books, 2007).
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