Contents:Social-scientific methods in historical Jesus research / Bruce J. Malina -- Ethnocentrism and historical questions about Jesus / Richard L. Rohrbaugh -- The contextual ethics of Jesus / Wolfgang Stegemann -- Jesus as fatherless child / Andries van Aarde -- Jesus heals the hemorrhaging woman / Stuart L. Love -- Altered states of consciousness in the synoptics / John J. Pilch -- Jesus and the demoniacs / Christian Strecker -- The baptism of Jesus : a ritual-critical approach / Richard E. DeMaris -- The politics of exoricsm / Santiago Guijarro -- The historical Jesus and honor reversal at the table / S. Scott Bartchy -- Jesus and the reduction of intergroup conflict / Philip F. Esler -- The plague of uncleanness? : The ancient illness construct "issue of blood" in Luke 8:43-48 / Annette Weissenrieder -- The political dimension of Jesus' activities / Gerd Theissen -- The political Jesus : discipleship and disengagement / T. Raymond Hobbs -- Jesus and the social bandits / K.C. Hanson -- The Jesus movement and network analysis / Dennis C. Duling -- Money in the moral universe of the New testament / Douglas E. Oakman -- Gifts, tributes, and offerings / Gary Stansell -- The Gospels in comparison with the Pauline letters : what we can learn from social-scientific models / Albert Verdoodt.
TextPublisher: Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c2002Description: xvi, 404 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: 0800634527Subject(s): Jesus Christ | Jews -- Social life and customs | Sociology, Biblical