Social Science Commentary on the Synoptic GospelsThe authors build on their earlier social-scientific works and enhance the highly successful commentary model they developed in their social-scientific commentaries. This volume is a thoroughly revised edition of this popular commentary. They include an introduction that lays the foundation for their interpretation, followed by an examination of each unit in the Synoptics, employing methodologies of cultural anthropology, macro-sociology, and social psychology. |
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accusations action ancient antiquity asked Barabbas behavior birth bread broker brother called Capernaum challenge Challenge-Riposte chief priests clients crowd debt demons denarii Deviance Labeling disciples dishonor economic elite evil father first-century Mediterranean followed forgiveness Galilee Gospel Greek healed Healing/Health hence henotheism Herod Herodians honor status Honor-Shame Societies ingroup insult Israelite Jerusalem Jesus John Judeans king kingdom of heaven kinship land Lord loyalty Luke male Mark marriage Matt Matthew meal means Mediterranean Messiah monotheism Nazareth NRSV one's opponents outgroup parable patron Patronage System peasant person Peter Pharisees Pilate poor prayer prophet reader Reading Scenarios rich Roman Palestine Sadducees scribes shame slave social sons of Zebedee Status Degradation Rituals story Surrogate Family Synoptic Gospels System in Roman tax collectors Temple Testament Textual Notes things tion Torah tradition Truly I tell unclean spirits village widow wife woman women word