The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels

Wolfgang Stegemann, Bruce J. Malina, Gerd Theissen

Fortress Press, 2002 - Religion - 404 pages

The context of Jesus, his followers, and the early movement What do the social sciences have to contribute to the study of Jesus and the Gospels? This is the fundamental question that these essays all address - from analyses of ancient economics to altered states of consciousness, politics, ritual, kinship, and labeling. Contributors: Bruce J. Malina, Wolfgang Stegemann, Richard L. Rohrbaugh, Ekkehard W. Stegemann, Gerd Theissen, T. Raymond Hobbs, Dennis C. Duling, K.C. Hanson, Philip F. Esler, S. Scott Bartchy, John J. Pilch, Christian Strecker, Richard DeMaris, Stuart L. Love, Jerome H. Neyrey, Douglas E. Oakman, Gary Stansell, Santiago Oporto Guijarro

About the author

Wolfgang Stegemann is Rector and Professor of New Testament at the Augustana Hochschule, Neuendettelsau, Germany, and is co-author of The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century (Fortress Press, 1995) and Jesus and the Hope of the Poor (1986). He is co-editor of The God of the Lowly: Socio-historical Interpretations of the Bible (1984) and The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels (Fortress Press, 2001).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels
• Editors: Wolfgang Stegemann, Bruce J. Malina, Gerd Theissen
• Publisher: Fortress Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0800634527, 9780800634520
• Length: 404 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Biblical Biography / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Commentary / New Testament / General; Religion / Biblical Studies / General; Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament / General; Religion / General