TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blasi, Anthony J
AU  - Duhaime,Jean
AU  - Turcotte,Paul-Andre
TI  - Handbook of Early Christianity:  Social Science Approaches
SN  - 0759100152   
U1  - J12 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Altamira Press
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Part I: General Perspective
CHAPTER I
Social Sciences Studying Formative Christian Phenomena: A Creative Movement    DAVID G. HORRELL    3
CHAPTER 2
Major Social Scientific Theories: Origins, Development, and Contributions     PAUL-ANDRE TURCOTTE    29
CHAPTER 3
General Methodological Perspective    ANTHONY j. BLASI    61
Part II: Special Methods
CHAPTER 4
Archaeological and Architectural Issues and the Question of Demographic and Urban Forms    CAROLYN OSIEK    83
CHAPTER 5
An Illustration of Historical Inquiry: Histories of Jesus and Matthew I.I-25    RITVAH.WILLIAMS    105
CHAPTER 6
Literary Source and Redaction Criticism    STEVEN L. BRIDGE     125
CHAPTER 7
Statistical Textual Analysis: A Special Technique     ROBERT A. WORTHAM     147
CHAPTER 8
Aspects of Rhetorical Analysis Applied to New Testament Texts ERNST R. WENDLAND 169
CHAPTER 9
Structuralism and Symbolic Universes: Second Temple Judaism and the Early Christian Movement    PETER STAPLES     197
Part III Contexts and Emergence of the Jesus Movement and Early Christianity
CHAPTER 10
Early Christianity as an Unorganized Ecumenical Religious Movement
FREDERICK BIRD      225 
CHAPTER 11
Jesus and Palestinian Social Protest: Archaeological and Literary Perspectives
PETER RICHARDSON AND DOUGLAS EDWARDS      247 
CHAPTER 12
Civilizational Encounters in the Development of Early Christianity
DONALD A. NIELSEN      267
CHAPTER 13
Early Christian Culture as Interaction    ANTHONY J. BLASI    291
CHAPTER 14
"Becoming Christian": Solidifying Christian Identity and Content
DAVID G. HORRELL      309 
CHAPTER 15
Sociological Insights into the Development of Christian Leadership Roles and Community Formation    HOWARD CLARK KEE    337
CHAPTER 16
Establishing Social Distance between Christians and Both Jews and Pagans    JACKT. SANDERS    361
Part IV: Power, Inequality, and Difference
CHAPTER 17
Connections with Elites in the World of the Early Christians
PHILIP A. HARLAND      385 
CHAPTER 18
Government and Public Law in Galilee, Judaea, Hellenistic Cities, and the Roman Empire    JOHN w. MARSHALL AND RUSSELL MARTIN    409
CHAPTER 19
Persecution    HAROLD REMUS    431
CHAPTER 20
Vulnerable Power: The Roman Empire Challenged by the Early Christians
WARREN CARTER      453
CHAPTER 21
The Limits of Ethnic Categories     NICOLA DENZEY     489
Part V: Economic Questions
CHAPTER 22
The Economy of First-Century Palestine: State of the Scholarly Discussion     PHILIP A. HARLAND     511
CHAPTER 23
Modes and Relations of Production    DIMITRIS ]. KYRTATAS    529
CHAPTER 24
What Would You Do for a Living?    DAVID A. FIENSY    555 
Part VI: Psycho-Social Approaches and Phenomena
CHAPTER 25
Conflicting Bases of Identity in Early Christianity: The Example
of Paul      NICHOLAS H.TAYLOR      577
CHAPTER 26
Dread of the Community: A Psychoanalytical Study of Fratricidal Conflict in the Context of First-Century Palestine
RICHARD K. FENN      599
CHAPTER 27
Conversion in Early Christianity    JACK T. SANDERS     619

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