John Pilch

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  Social Science Commentary On The Book Of Acts

  $34.00

  Like earlier volumes in the Social Science Commentary series, this volume situates Acts squarely in the cultural matrix of the first century Mediterranean world, elaborating its codes of patron and client, mediatorship, honor and shame, healing and sickening, wizardry and witchcraft accusations, and the understanding of the Spirit of God as well as deities and demons as personal causes of significant events.

  Part 1: Jesus First Command to the Twelve – Their Activities Among Israelite Majority Populations (Acts 1:4-12:25)

  Part 2: Jesus Second Command to Saul/Paul – His Activities Among Israelite Minority Populations (Acts 12:25-25:31)

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  Social Science Commentary On The Letters Of Paul

  $39.00

  Abbreviations
  Preface
  Introduction

  1 THESSALONIANS
  I. 1 Thess 1:1 Letter Opening (Superscription)
  II. 1 Thess 1:2-3:13 About The Relationship Between The Change Agents And The Jesus Group They Formed
  III. 1 Thess 4:1-5:24 Directives And Exhortations
  IV. 1 Thess 5:25-28 Letter Closing: Salutation And Blessing

  1 CORINTHIANS
  I. 1 Cor 1: 1-8 Letter Opening (Superscription)
  II. 1 Cor 1:9-6:20 Reaction To A Report From Chloe’s People
  III. 1 Cor 7:1-15:58 Response To Corinthian Questions
  IV. 1 Cor 16:5-24 Letter Closing: Salutations And Blessings

  2 CORINTHIANS
  I. 2 Cor 2:14-6:13 Letter 1: Written Before The Dispute
  II. 2 Corinthians 10-13 Letter 2: Written During The Dispute
  III. 2 Cor 1:1-2:13 [7:5-16] Letter 3: Written After The Dispute
  IV. 2 Cor 8:1-24 Insert: Part Of A Letter Of Recommendation For Titus About The Collection For Jerusalem
  V. 2 Cor 9:1-15 Insert: Part Of A Letter About The Collection For Jerusalem

  GALATIANS
  I. Gal 1:1-5 Letter Opening (Superscription)
  II. Gal 1:6-9 Introduction
  III. Gal 1:10-2:21 Paul Defends His Honor (Form: Encomium)
  IV. Gal 3:1-6:10 Paul Defends His Gospel (Form: Public Argument)
  V. Gal 6:11-18 Conclusion

  ROMANS
  I. Rom 1:1-7 Letter Opening (Superscription)
  II. Rom 1:8-10 Letter Thanksgiving
  III. Rom 1:11-17 Introduction And Travel Plans
  IV. Rom 1:18-32 They And The Ten Commandments
  V. Rom 2:1-16 You Judeans And Judging Hellenists
  VI. Rom 2:17-3:20 Israelites
  VII. Rom 3:21-8:39 The Present Time: Now
  VIII. Rom 9:1-11:36 Recalcitrant Israel
  IX. Rom 12:1-13:14 You: Jesus-Group Values
  X. Rom 14:1-15:13 They (the Weak) And The Torah Commandments
  XI. Rom 15:15-32 Conclusion And Travel Plans
  XII. Rom 15:33 Letter Ending
  XIII. Rom 16:1-29 Appendix: Letter Of Recommendation For Phoebe And Doxology

  PHILIPPIANS
  I. Phil 1:1-11 Superscription
  II. Phil 1:12-2:15 Body A: Paul’s Prison Circumstances And Its Significance For The Philippians
  III. Phil 2:16-3:21 Body B: Ingroup And Outgroup Relations
  IV. Phil 4:1-23 Concluding Remarks

  PHILEMON
  I. Phlm 1-3 Superscription
  II. Phlm 4-7 Thanksgiving: The Exordium
  III. Phlm 8-16 Body Of The Letter Part A: Perobatio
  IV. Phlm 17-22 Body Of The Letter Part B: Peroratio
  V. Phlm 23-25 Conclusion

  Reading Scenarios For The (Authentic) Letters Of Paul
  Bibliography
  List Of Reading Scenarios

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  This latest addition to the Fortress Social-Science Commentaries on New Testament writings illuminates the values, perceptions, and social codes of the Mediterranean culture that shaped Paul and his interactions -both harmonious and conflicted – with others. Malina and Pilch add new dimensions to our understanding of the apostle as a social change agent, his coworkers as innovators, and his gospel as an assertion of the honor of the God of Israel.

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  Social Science Commentary On The Book Of Revelation

  $32.00

  The author of Revelation presents himself as John, the astral seer, who professes faith in the Resurrected Jesus and who belonged to the house of Israel. John writes of traveling in to the sky; but this perspective of “sky-visions” is completely neglected in the traditional commentaries and studies on Revelation. Malina and Pilch demonstrate the necessity of taking ancient sky-interpretation seriously for reading the book of Revelation in its first-century context.

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  Healing In The New Testament

  $25.00

  How are we to read and understand stories of Jesus healing the lame, deaf, blind, and those with a variety of other maladies? Pilch takes us beyond the historical and literary questions to examine the social questions of how the ancient Judeans understood healing, what roles healers played, and the different emphases on healing among gospels. In his comparative analysis, the author draws on the anthropology of the Mediterranean as well as the models employed by medical anthropologists to understand peasant societies and their health-care systems.

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