To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to © 2010 Dietmar Neufeld and Richard E. Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009. Understanding the Social World of the New Testament Edited byįirst published 2010 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016 His publications include The New Testament in its Ritual World (Routledge, 2008) and he is on the editorial advisory board of Religious Studies Review. DeMaris is Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University, USA. His publications include the edited volume The Social Sciences and Biblical Translation (SBL/Brill 2008). Dietmar Neufeld is Associate Professor of Christian Origins in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. This book is the ideal companion to study of the New Testament. Kinship is illuminated by analysis of the Holy Family as well as early Christian organizations gender through a study of Paul’s view of women and landscape and spatiality through a discussion of Jesus of Nazareth.
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DeMaris bring together biblical scholars with expertise in the social science to develop interpretive models for understanding such values as collectivism, kinship, memory, ethnicity, and honor, and to demonstrate how to apply these models to the New Testament texts. It is imperative to develop a cross-cultural understanding of the values of the ancient Mediterranean society from which the New Testament arose in order to fully appreciate the documents and the communities that they represent. The New Testament is a book of great significance in Western culture yet is often inaccessible to students because the modern world differs so significantly from the ancient Mediterranean one in which it was written. Understanding the Social World of the New Testament
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