Social Aspects of Early Christianity, Second Edition

Comments on the First Edition... Those concerned with Christian beginnings will find Malherbe stimulating and incisive on the New Testament. Robert M. Gratn, Journal of Religion The author is a scholar of great learning. I found the footnotes to be extremely useful, and the challenge of the book that a new consesus has emerged is a genuine contribution to continuing debate. Robin Scroggs, Journal of the American Academy of Religion An interesting and informed introduction to an important new development in the study of earliest Christianity. - Victor P. Furnish, Perkins Journal The book constitutes a major challenge to the depictions of early Christianity - especially of the Pauline Wing in earlier scholarly work. - Howard Clark Kee, Reflection

About the author

Abraham J. Malherbe is Buckingham Professor Emeritus of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University. Malherbe has written extensively on the literary and social dimensions of ancient literature and Greco-Roman philosophy. Some of his many books include 'Moral Exhortation: A Greco-Roman Sourcebook', 'Paul & the Popular Philosophers', 'Ancient Epistolary Theorists', and 'The Letters to the Thessalonians'.

Product details

• Authors: Abraham J. Malherbe
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.2003
• EAN: 9781592444113
• ISBN: 978-1-59244-411-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 191 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works