The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for The New Testament World This work is based on the premise that to best understand what people say and mean to say, one must first understand the social context from which they speak. In order to understand the New Testament, this means grasping the social system of the Eastern Mediterranean in the first century AD.
Full description- Publisher: Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
- Published: 20 April 2001
- Format: Paperback 274 pages
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- Categories: Sociology & Anthropology | Social & Cultural Anthropology | History Of Religion | Biblical Studies & Exegesis
- ISBN 13: 9780664222956 ISBN 10: 0664222951
- Sales rank: 154,025
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Full description for The New Testament World
A classroom standard for two decades, The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology has introduced students to both the New Testament and the social-scientific study of the New Testament. This revised and expanded third edition offers new chapters on envy and the Jesus movement, updates chapters from earlier editions, augments the bibliography, and offers student study questions.

