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050 00 $aBS2545.S55$bE85 1994
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100 1 $aEsler, Philip Francis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86087041
245 14 $aThe first Christians in their social worlds :$bsocial-scientific approaches to New Testament interpretation /$cPhilip F. Esler.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c1994.
300 $ax, 164 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [147]-156) and indexes.
505 0 $a1. Social worlds, social sciences and the New Testament -- 2. Reading the Mediterranean social script -- 3. Glossolalia and the admission of Gentiles into the early Christian community -- 4. Sectarianism and the conflict at Antioch -- 5. Introverted sectarianism at Qumran and in the Johannine community -- 6. Millennialism and Daniel 7 -- 7. The social function of 4 Ezra -- 8. Sorcery accusations and the Apocalypse.
520 $aThe First Christians in their Social Worlds is an excellent introduction to social-scientific interpretation of the New Testament. It shows that the various New Testament documents were written for diverse Christian communities, or 'social worlds'. To understand the theology of these texts we must examine what they meant to their original readers in the first century.
520 8 $aPhilip Esler looks at the New Testament from both a sociological and anthropological perspective. He uses the model of legitimation developed by sociologists Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, with its emphasis on the creation and maintenance of social worlds, and complements this with an anthropological examination of the cultural script in which the New Testament texts were written.
520 8 $aThis is in contrast to a more prevalent literary critical approach to the New Testament which focuses on the 'contemporary meaning' of the biblical texts. The First Christians in their Social Worlds employs a wide range of biblical data and socio-political ideas to illustrate this theoretical perspective, including charismatic phenomena, the admission of the Gentiles into early Christian communities, sectarianism, millenarianism and the Apocalypse.
520 8 $aThis fascinating study of the New Testament, examined in the context of first-century social worlds, will appeal to biblical and theology students, academics and anyone with an interest in early Christian history.
630 00 $aBible.$pNew Testament$xSocial scientific criticism.
650 0 $aSociology, Biblical.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124211
650 0 $aChristian sociology$xHistory$yEarly church, ca. 30-600.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124215
852 00 $boff,glx$hBS2545.S55$iE85 1994