The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century - Hardcover

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This monumental work by two outstanding New Testament scholars is the first comprehensive social history of the earliest churches. Integrating the historical and social data, they locate the ancient Galileans, ans, and the Jesus movement in their respective matrices. The Stegemanns deal with such issues as conflict between the messianic communities and the rest of Judaism, religious pluralism, social stratification, group composition, gender division, ancient economics, and urban/rural distinctions. This volume offers both an introduction to these social issues, as well as fresh insights and ysis, and includes: --Integration of social history, social-scientific yses, and theological yses --Focus on the role of women in the Jesus movement and early churches --Maps, tables, and diagrams

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