Social-Scientific Approaches to New Testament Interpretation

includes index and biblioraphy

Jesus the witch: Witchcraft accusation in Matthew 12 ..............29 The earliest christian communities as Sectarian movement .............69 The wandering radicals: Light shed by the sociology of Literature on the early transmission of jesus sayings ..........93 The socio-redaction criticism of luke - Acts ........123 Despising the shame of the Cross : Honor and shame in the johannine passion narrative ........151 Christian mission and the theology of Cognitie dissonance .............177 The social level of pauline christians ..............195 Ritual in the pauline churces................233 Social integration and sacramental activity : An analysis of I cor 11: 17-34................249 NOt many powerful : Approaches to a Sociology of Early christianity ...........275 Devinace and apostasy : some applications of Deviance theory to first -century judaism and christianity ..............289 Leadership patterns and the development of Ideology in Early christianity ............309 Social-scientific criticism of a Biblical Text .................339