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"This enormously useful volume presents a 'world' of information
and theoretical perspectives that have become indispensable for
contextual exegesis of Luke-Acts. The authors of this fascinating
and well-planned book are seasoned and trustworthy guides into the
world inhabited by Luke and his first readers. These provocative
articles provide the commentary reader of Luke-Acts with mighty
tools for creating first-century scenarios that reveal
significantly new dimensions of Luke's cutting edges."--S. Scott
Bartchy, associate professor of early Christian history, UCLA
"This is clearly the best collection of articles available from the
New Testament scholars employing methods of interpretation from
cultural anthropology. The writers introduce a wide range of
innovative models to unravel the culture of the biblical world.
They offer the first comprehensive analysis of a single New
Testament text from the perspective of the social sciences. This
highly readable volume will be essential for anyone eager to
experience the flood of insights coming from recent social study of
the New Testament."--David Rhoads, Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago
"The Social World of the New Testament: Insights and Models"
surveys essential contributions made by leading scholars of the
social-scientific approach to New Testament studies. Including
important essays by Bruce J. Malina and John J. Pilch, among
others, this book acts as a comprehensive collection of the most
important essays and articles in the field. Included are topics
vital to the social scientific interpretation of the New Testament,
organized under three headings:
INSTITUTIONS
- Kinship: All in the Family: Kinship in Agrarian Roman
Palestine--K. C. Hanson
- The Patron-Client Institution: God in the Letter of James: Patron
or Benefactor?--Alicia Batten
- Economics: Jesus and Agrarian Palestine: The Factor of
Debt--Douglas E. Oakman
CULTURE
- Honor and Shame: Loss of Wealth, Loss of Family, Loss of Honor:
The Cultural Context of the Original Makarisms in Q--Jerome H.
Neyrey, SJ
- Purity: The Epistle of James in Rhetorical and Social-Scientific
Perspective: Holiness-Wholeness and Patterns of Replication-- John
H. Elliott
- Social Location: Was Jesus a Peasant: Implications for Reading
the Jesus Tradition (Luke 10:30-35)--Douglas E. Oakman
- Social Location: The Social Location of the Markan
Audience--Richard L. Rohrbaugh
- Gender: Who Should Be Called "Father"? Paul of Tarsus between the
Jesus Tradition and Patria Potestas--S. Scott Bartchy
- Space: "Teaching You in Public and from House to House" (Acts
20:20): Unpacking a Cultural Stereotype--Jerome H. Neyrey, SJ
- Healing: Healing in Luke-Acts--John J. Pilch
- Evil Eye: Paul, Galatians, and the Evil Eye-- John H.
Elliott
- Limited Good: "He Must Increase, I Must Decrease"(John 3:30): A
Cultural and Social Interpretation--Richard L. Rohrbaugh and Jerome
H. Neyrey
MODAL PERSONALITY
- Modal Personality: Ancient Mediterranean Persons in Cultural
Perspective: Portrait of Paul--Jerome H. Neyrey, SJ and Bruce J.
Malina
Jerome Neyrey clarifies what praise, honor, and glory meant to
Matthew and his audience. He examines the traditional literary
forms for bestowing such praise and the conventional grounds for
awarding honor and praise in Matthew's world.
How did ancient persons understand themselves, other people, and
the world around them? Is there a marked contrast between their
understandings of "self" and "other" and the way modern Westerners
define those concepts? Bruce Malina and Jerome Neyrey focus on the
figure of Paul to provide a comprehensive investigation of how one
man was perceived in the ancient world. Drawing on primary sources
from antiquity, as well as lessons from cultural anthropology, the
authors help provide a fuller understanding of the person of Paul
and his world. By doing so, they offer readers a new, and more
balanced, way to approach the New Testament.
The focus of this book is an anthropological perspective that
will open the writings of Paul to a challenging new range of
questions and issues. Jerome Neyrey introduces the reader to
critical access thorough a wholly convincing method of
cultural-historical analysis. Paul comes alive in time and place.
Biblical theologians and students will find ample stimulus in
Neyrey's analysis of Paul.
Given all that has been written about the Gospel of John over the
past twenty centuries, can anything more possibly be said about it?
Yes, says Jerome Neyrey -- by reading this "maverick Gospel" in
terms of ancient rhetoric and by viewing it in terms of cultural
anthropology. / By interpreting the text in these two fresh ways,
Neyrey distinctively illuminates the Gospel of John, casting new
light on its theological message and on such topics as Jesus the
revealer practicing secrecy, foot-washing as transformation ritual,
and the Jewish background of Jesus' equality with God, of Jesus
being "greater than" Abraham. Neyrey's scholarly study will
certainly educate -- and at times provoke -- attentive readers.
This 2007 commentary differs from most others in that it does not
attempt to repeat all the critical materials which can be found in
the larger, major series. Rather it brings to the interpretation of
John, materials more literary and rhetorical in nature. It presents
full paragraphs on passages, key terms and major motifs. One might
say that the 'big picture' is more important here than exacting
detail. Readers will be invited into the gospel by noting its
typical literary patterns (chiasms, topic statements and
development, patterns of double-meaning words), rhetorical
commonplaces and discourse (e.g., 'the 'noble' shepherd'; forensic
trials: accusations, defense, verdict and sentence). In particular
this commentary brings readers into the cultural world of the
gospel by presenting materials such as honor and shame, challenge
and riposte, gossip, secrecy, and sectarian character of the group.
This is a very accessible reading of John.
In antiquity honor and shame are two key values in public
relationships and in the overall functioning of society. This work
offers an exhaustive explanation of the meaning that praise and
recrimination have for Matthew the evangelist and his Christian
addressees. Professor Neyrey focuses on the analysis of the
traditional genre, where honor and shame appear. His study, based
on the knowledge of ancient rhetoric, is completed with
trans-cultural studies from other countries surrounding the
Mediterranean basin. It also includes some original aspects in
order to get a different grasp of Matthew's Gospel.
Neyrey here interprets eight key New Testament books, providing a
fresh look at theologies in the early church and introducing
readers to the diverse ways in which the New Testament writers
"render to God the things that are God's." He begins with two
Gospels, Mark and Matthew, and moves on to the Acts of the Apostles
and three of Paul's letters (Romans, 1 Corinthians, and Galatians).
He then examines the formal and precise ways in which Jesus is
called God in the Gospel of John and concludes with a discussion of
how Hebrews uses "eternity" as a fundamental concept for
understanding God. Using a social-science methodology, he offers
unique perspective on the biblical text.
This 2007 commentary differs from most others in that it does not
attempt to repeat all the critical materials which can be found in
the larger, major series. Rather it brings to the interpretation of
John, materials more literary and rhetorical in nature. It presents
full paragraphs on passages, key terms and major motifs. One might
say that the 'big picture' is more important here than exacting
detail. Readers will be invited into the gospel by noting its
typical literary patterns (chiasms, topic statements and
development, patterns of double-meaning words), rhetorical
commonplaces and discourse (e.g., 'the 'noble' shepherd'; forensic
trials: accusations, defense, verdict and sentence). In particular
this commentary brings readers into the cultural world of the
gospel by presenting materials such as honor and shame, challenge
and riposte, gossip, secrecy, and sectarian character of the group.
This is a very accessible reading of John.
Jerome H. Neyrey gives us a thoroughly up to date and comprehensive
study of two of the most obscure books of the New Testament.
Written after the death of Jesus and his Apostles, the Epistles of
2 Peter and Jude offer a glimpse into the turbulent life of the
early Christian communities. Neyrey's fascinating study not only
provides an entirely new translation of the two texts, but also
stirring commentary that takes the reader inside groups located at
the very edges of Christianity, in contact with the wider Roman
world and Greek culture of the day. Neyrey builds upon the
excellent scholarship of the past, and introduces into the
discussion factors that were rarely understood or considered in
earlier times: the social, political, and economic setting in which
the New Testament Epistles were written and read-the church as a
community within the larger context of the vast Roman Empire of the
late first and early second centuries. And while these letters are
often considered peripheral or marginal to the New Testament, they
nevertheless reveal and interpret one of the murkier eras in the
life of the church. They reflect the hard times and difficult
circumstances of the faithful, beset by treacherous comrades within
and malevolent enemies without. But all the while, these documents
express the constancy and commitment of those who found salvation
and the renewal of life in the one Lord, Jesus Christ.
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