After the First Urban Christians The Social-Scientific Study of Pauline Christianity Twenty-Five Years Later

by Still, Todd D.; Horrell, David G.

• ISBN13: 9780567427748
• ISBN10: 0567427749
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-13
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

Taking Meeks's landmark book as its starting point, this new volume of essays examines the developments in social-scientific study of Pauline Christianity over the past twenty-five years and outlines directions for future research.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Whither Social-Scientific Approaches to New Testament Interpretation? Reflections on Contested Methodologies and the Future	p. 6
Contours of the Urban Environment	p. 21
Socio-Economic Profiling of the First Urban Christians	p. 36
First-Century Models for Paul's Churches: Selected Scholarly Developments Since Meeks	p. 60
Organizational Structures and Relational Struggles among the Saints: The Establishment and Exercise of Authority within Pauline Assemblies	p. 79
Ritual and the First Urban Christians: Boundary Crossings of Life and Death	p. 99
Patterns of Belief and Patterns of Life: Correlations in The First Urban Christians and Since	p. 116
Taking Stock and Moving On	p. 134
Bibliography	p. 147
Index of Biblical and Ancient References	p. 165
Index of Modern Authors	p. 169
Index of Subjects	p. 173
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