Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic GospelsThe authors build on their earlier social-scientific works and enhance the highly successful commentary model they developed in their social-scientific commentaries. This volume is a thoroughly revised edition of this popular commentary. They include an introduction that lays the foundation for their interpretation, followed by an examination of each unit in the Synoptics, employing methodologies of cultural anthropology, macro-sociology, and social psychology. |
Contents
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21620 Reactions to Jesus and His Message | 65 |
212034 Jesus Journeys to Jerusalem | 86 |
12546 Activity in Jerusalem | 102 |
12820 Jesus Death and Resurrection | 124 |
11337 With Jesus and the Disciples in Jerusalem | 192 |
1168 Jesus Death and Resurrection | 205 |
Luke | 219 |
14 Prologue | 222 |
1413 In the Wilderness Jesus Israelite Holy Man Son of God | 233 |
14950 In Galilee Jesus the Prophet His Faction and Its Function | 240 |
511927 On the Way to Jerusalem with Jesus the Prophet Further Faction Formation and Function | 265 |
282138 The Prophet in Jerusalem Jesus Broker of the Kingdom | 303 |
Mark | 141 |
115 Prologue Presenting Jesus Son of God | 143 |
1645 A Day in the Life of Jesus | 146 |
136 Jesus Challenges by Healing and Eating | 150 |
7826 Back and Forth at Sea with Jesus and the Disciples | 155 |
271052 With Jesus and the Disciples to Jerusalem | 178 |
12453 The Prophet in Jerusalem Jesus Death and Resurrection | 312 |
READING SCENARIOS | 323 |
THE JEWISH TRADITION AND THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION | 425 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 427 |
LIST OF READING SCENARIOS | 439 |
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Common terms and phrases
Acquired Honor action ancient answered antiquity asked behavior birth called Capernaum challenge Challenge-Riposte chief priests crowd culture death demons denarii Deviance disciples dishonor elite evil eye father followed forgiveness forthcoming theocracy Galilee God's Gospel Greek hand healed Healing/Health hence Herod Herodians honor status Honor-Shame Societies in-group insult Israel Israelite Israelite holy Jerusalem Jesus groups John Judea king kingdom of heaven kinship land Lord loyalty Luke Luke's male Mark marriage Matt Matthew meal means Mediterranean Mediterranean world Messiah Nazareth Notes at Luke NRSV one's opponents parable Passover patron Patronage System peasant person Peter Pharisees Pilate prayer prophet question reader rich Roman Palestine Sadducees scenario scribes shame slave social sons of Zebedee Status Degradation Rituals story Surrogate Family synagogue Synoptic Synoptic Gospels System in Roman Temple Testament Textual Notes things tion tomb Torah tradition Truly I tell village woman women word
Popular passages
Page 242 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 58 - Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Stand up and take your mat and walk'? But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" — he said to the paralytic — "I say to you, stand up, take your mat and go to your home.
Page 179 - And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. 24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
Page 227 - How can this be, since I have no husband?' And the angel said to her. The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.
Page 418 - You shall not commit adultery,' 'You shall not steal,' 'You shall not bear false witness,' 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Page 125 - When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left.
Page 254 - Go your way and tell John what things ye have seen and heard : the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up...
Page 292 - No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Page 78 - Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us?