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Bruce Malina

Bruce J. Malina is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity of the Department of Theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Portraits of Paul

An Archaeology of Ancient Personality

Author(s):
Bruce Malina
Jerome Neyrey

How did ancient persons understand themselves, other people, and the world around them? Is there a marked contrast between their understandings of "self" and "other" and the way modern Westerners define the same? Bruce Malina and Jerome Neyrey focus on the figure of Paul to provide a comprehensive investigation of how one man was perceived in the ancient world. Drawing on primary sources from antiquity, as well a lessons from cultural anthropology, the authors help provide a fuller ...
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Price: $48.00
Publication Date: 07/01/1996
0664254578

Windows on the World of Jesus, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded

Time Travel to Ancient Judea

Author(s):
Bruce Malina

George Smith, a twentieth-century American, moved into a house with a large vineyard in the Eastern Mediterranean during the first century AD, going back in time and space. He needed help on his land and requested that individuals interested in work be at his place at 9 a.m. on August 8. No one showed up. Why not? This is just one of the sixty fun-to-read vignettes Bruce Malina cleverly presents in this book that explains the customs and culture of the world in which Jesus lived and ...
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Price: $35.00
Publication Date: 01/01/1993
0664222951

The New Testament World, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded

Insights from Cultural Anthropology

Author(s):
Bruce Malina

A classroom standard for two decades, The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology has introduced students to both the New Testament and the social-scientific study of the New Testament. This revised and expanded third edition offers new chapters on envy and the Jesus movement, updates chapters from earlier editions, augments the bibliography, and offers student study questions.
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Price: $42.00
Publication Date: 02/01/2001