This study demonstrates how fruitful the relationship between the social sciences and Biblical studies can be if sociological method is imaginatively applied to an account of Palestinian society during the first century. It seeks to show how a sociologist, in examining Josephus' account of the struggle for succession within the Herodian household, would set about asking certain questions about Palestinian society as a whole. The author identifies a succession-crisis that affects every level of Palestinian society, which leads him to ask how that crisis may threaten Israel's capacity to reproduce itself from one generation to the next. As an introduction to the peculiar craft of sociology, this book will be of particular interest to students of antiquity and of the New Testament.
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"The author has chosen a useful way in which to present the sociologist's craft to the reader. Zeroing in on a particular set of circumstances keeps the book from becoming a dull, theoretical account, and Fenn adds to the appeal of the book by making a number of observations about NT passages that parallel or exemplify what he finds in Josephus's reports....it is instructive to see what happens when a familiar text is viewed through eyes that are trained to see phenomena differently than a traditional historian might." James Vanderkam, Critical review
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This study demonstrates how a sociologist would methodically approach an account of Palestinian society during the first century through an examination of Joesphus' account of the struggle for succession within the Herodian household.
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In approaching antiquity, students of Christian origins will be approaching a very strange world indeed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
testing charisma, prophetic methodology, actions into acts, priestly viewpoint, exchange with outsiders, prophetic viewpoint, gap between language, social credit, corporate acts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jewish War, New Testament, South Asian, United States, Jewish Christian, New Guinea Highlanders, Paul Veyne, Protestant Ethic, Synoptic Gospels New!
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- The Jewish War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Flavius Josephus on 19 pages
- Anthropology of Evil by David Parkin on page 35, and Back Matter
- Death and the Regeneration of Life by Maurice Bloch on page 34, and Back Matter
- Josephus: Jewish Antiquities, Book 20 (Loeb Classical Library No. 456) (Bk.XX v. 13) by Josephus on page 175, and Back Matter
- The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus on page 107, and Back Matter
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- Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans (Studies on Personalities of the New Testament) by Peter Richardson on 6 pages
- The Building Program of Herod the Great by Duane W. Roller in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Social Meanings Of Sacrifice In The Hebrew Bible: A Study Of Four Writings (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft) by David Janzen on page 29, and Back Matter
- The Persistence of Purgatory by Richard K. Fenn in Back Matter
- Challenging Religion by James A. Beckford in Front Matter
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