Handbook of early Christianity :  social science approaches / 
edited by Anthony J. Blasi, Jean Duhaime and Paul-Andre Turcotte. 
 - Walnut Creek, CA :  AltaMira Press,  c2002. 
 - xxvii, 802 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 643-751) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Social sciences studying formative Christian phenomena : a creative movement / David G. Horrell -- Major social scientific theories : origins, development, and contributions / Paul-Andre Turcotte -- General methodological perspective / Anthony J. Blasi -- Archaeological and architectural issues and the question of demographic and urban forms / Carolyn Osiek -- An illustration of historical inquiry : histories of Jesus and Matthew I.1-25 / Ritva H. Williams -- Literary source and redaction criticism / Steven L. Bridge -- Statistical textual analysis : a special technique / Robert A. Wortham -- Aspects of rhetorical analysis applied to New Testament texts / Ernst R. Wendland -- Structuralism and symbolic universes : Second Temple Judaism and the early Christian movement / Peter Staples -- Early Christianity as an unorganized ecumenical religious movement / Frederick Bird -- Jesus and Palestinian social protest : archaeological and literary perspectives / Peter Richardson and Douglas Edwards -- Civilizational encounters in the development of early Christianity / Donald A. Nielsen -- Early Christian culture as interaction / Anthony J. Blasi -- "Becoming Christian" : solidifying Christian identity and content / David G. Horrell -- Sociological insights into the development of Christian leadership roles and community formation / Howard Clark Kee -- Establishing social distance between Christians and both Jews and pagans / Jack T. Sanders -- Connections with elites in the world of the early Christians / Philip A. Harland -- Government and public law in Galilee, Judaea, Hellenistic cities, and the Roman Empire / John W. Marshall and Russell Martin -- Persecution / Harold Remus -- Vulnerable power : the Roman empire challenged by the early Christians / Warren Carter -- The limits of ethnic categories / Nicola Denzey -- The economy of first-century Palestine : state of the scholarly discussion / Philip A. Harland -- Modes and relations of production / Dimitris J. Kyrtatas -- What would you do for a living? / David A. Fiensy -- Conflicting bases of identity in early Christianity : the example of Paul / Nicholas H. Taylor -- Dread of the community : a psychoanalytical study of fratricidal conflict in the context of first-century Palestine / Richard K. Fenn -- Conversion in early Christianity / Jack T. Sanders. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0759100152 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001053587 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>20040067475 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christian sociology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Religion and sociology--Italy--Rome.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR 166  / .H36 2002