TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blasi,Anthony J.
AU  - Turcotte,Paul-Andre
TI  - Handbook of early Christianity: social science approaches 
SN  - 9780759100152
AV  - BR166 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Walnut Creek, California
PB  - AltaMira Press
KW  - Church history
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
N1  - 1 (pages 643-751) and indexes; Social sciences studying formative Christian phenomena : a creative movement; David G. Horrell --; Major social scientific theories : origins, development, and contributions; Paul-Andre Turcotte --; General methodological perspective; Anthony J. Blasi --; Archaeological and architectural issues and the question of demographic and urban forms; Carolyn Osiek --; An illustration of historical inquiry : histories of Jesus and Matthew I.1-25; Ritva H. Williams --; Literary source and redaction criticism; Steven L. Bridge --; Statistical textual analysis : a special technique; Robert A. Wortham --; Aspects of rhetorical analysis applied to New Testament texts; Ernst R. Wendland --; Structuralism and symbolic universes : Second Temple Judaism and the early Christian movement; Peter Staples --; Early Christianity as an unorganized ecumenical religious movement; Frederick Bird --; Jesus and Palestinian social protest : archaeological and literary perspectives; Peter Richardson and Douglas Edwards --; Civilizational encounters in the development of early Christianity; Donald A. Nielsen --; Early Christian culture as interaction; Anthony J. Blasi --; "Becoming Christian" : solidifying Christian identity and content; David G. Horrell --; Sociological insights into the development of Christian leadership roles and community formation; Howard Clark Kee --; Establishing social distance between Christians and both Jews and pagans; Jack T. Sanders --; Connections with elites in the world of the early Christians; Philip A. Harland --; Government and public law in Galilee, Judaea, Hellenistic cities, and the Roman Empire; John W. Marshall and Russell Martin --; Persecution; Harold Remus --; Vulnerable power : the Roman empire challenged by the early Christians; Warren Carter --; The limits of ethnic categories; Nicola Denzey --; The economy of first-century Palestine : state of the scholarly discussion; Philip A. Harland --; Modes and relations of production; Dimitris J. Kyrtatas --; What would you do for a living? / David A. Fiensy --; Conflicting bases of identity in early Christianity : the example of Paul; Nicholas H. Taylor --; Dread of the community : a psychoanalytical study of fratricidal conflict in the context of first-century Palestine; Richard K. Fenn --; Conversion in early Christianity; Jack T. Sanders; 2
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