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Author: Harry O. Maier (Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies, Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies, Vancouver School of Theology)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 20.80cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 14.00cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9780190264406
ISBN 10: 0190264403
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 29 November 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Summing up: Recommended -- CHOICE
Harry Maier's excellent new book, New Testament Christianity in the Roman World, offers instructors what standard textbooks do not: a thorough and nuanced, yet brief and accessible orientation to the Roman world as the social context of the New Testament texts. -- G. Anthony Keddie, University of British Columbia , Review of Biblical Literature Overall, Maier's is an immensely learned, readable, and productive introduction to New Testament writings as artifacts of the sociocultural context in which they took shape. He is to be commended both for how he enlists these sources to accentuate, rather than mandate, a broader investigation of the Roman world and also for doing so in a manner that is suggestive but not determinative of their interpretation. The book is an excellent resource for curious readers and students alike and I see it especially working well as the backbone of a course that favors extensive engagement with primary sources. Or so I intend to use it. -- Heidi Wendt, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Summing up: Recommended -- CHOICE This is an excellent book -- Wendell Willis, Restoration Quarterly
Summing up: Recommended * CHOICE *
Overall, Maieras is an immensely learned, readable, and productive introduction to New Testament writings as artifacts of the sociocultural context in which they took shape. He is to be commended both for how he enlists these sources to accentuate, rather than mandate, a broader investigation of the Roman world and also for doing so in a manner that is suggestive but not determinative of their interpretation. The book is an excellent resource for curious readers and students alike and I see it especially working well as the backbone of a course that favors extensive engagement with primary sources. Or so I intend to use it. -- Heidi Wendt, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Summing up: Recommended -- CHOICE This is an excellent book -- Wendell Willis, Restoration Quarterly
Author Information
Harry O. Maier is Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at Vancouver School of Theology and Fellow of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. His publications include Picturing Paul in Empire: Imperial Image, Text, and Persuasion in Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles.
