Louise Lawrence provides a reading of Matthew's Gospel from an ethnographic perspective.
Her book submits that the dynamic paradigm of ethnography constitutes an important …

There are few texts as central to the mythology of Jewish and Christian literature as the
Garden of Eden story of Genesis 2-3 and its attendant motifs. Yet the direct citation of this …

The thirty year history of an SBL Section reveals an essential component of the exegetical
enterprise coming of age. Focused from the beginning on the social and cultural dimensions …

A fundamentally revisionist approach that leaves behind the constructed social reality of a
“sectarian” paradigm Gwynned de Looijer reexamines the key hypotheses that have driven …

Interpreters of Matthew's Parable of the Wedding Feast (22.1-14) typically associate
the'king'with God and then justify his violent attacks against city and guests; interpreters of …

Two leading figures in the social-scientific study of the NT declared in the 1980s that the
view that early Christianity was a sect within Judaism had beco" a commonplace." 1 Since …

A Marginal Scribe collects eight studies written over a period of two decades, all of which
use social-scientific criticism to interpret the Gospel of Matthew. It prefaces them, first, with a …

How are social boundaries created and how are they maintained? To an extent, the way
people look, dress and talk demarcates cultural markers that distinguish them from others …

Given that the Bible is among the main sources of knowledge about the early church, how
do we know how the early Christian communities understood the memory of Jesus within …

Abstract The relationship between Saint Paul and the continent of Africa has never been a
significant point of discussion in the New Testament studies. The same can be observed …