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Portraits of Paul Bruce J. Malina, STD

Portraits of Paul By Bruce J. Malina, STD

Portraits of Paul by Bruce J. Malina, STD


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How did ancient persons understand themselves, other people, and the world around them? Is there a marked contrast between their understandings of self and other and the way modern Westerners define the same? Bruce Malina and Jerome Neyrey focus on the figure of Paul to provide a comprehensive investigation of how one man was perceived in...

Portraits of Paul Summary

Portraits of Paul: An Archaeology of Ancient Personality by Bruce J. Malina, STD

How did ancient persons understand themselves, other people, and the world around them? Is there a marked contrast between their understandings of self and other and the way modern Westerners define the same? Bruce Malina and Jerome Neyrey focus on the figure of Paul to provide a comprehensive investigation of how one man was perceived in the ancient world. Drawing on primary sources from antiquity, as well a lessons from cultural anthropology, the authors help provide a fuller understanding of the person of Paul and his world. The result is a new, more balanced way to approach the New Testament.

About Bruce J. Malina, STD

Bruce J. Malina is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity of the Department of Theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Jerome H. Neyrey is Professor Emeritus of New Testament Studies at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana and executive secretary of The Context Group in South Bend, Indiana.

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NPB9780664256814
9780664256814
0664256813
Portraits of Paul: An Archaeology of Ancient Personality by Bruce J. Malina, STD
New
Paperback
Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
19960701
288
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