Portraits of Paul: An Archaeology of Ancient Personality

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 understanding of the person of Paul and his world. The result is a new, more balanced way to approach the New Testament.

Author: Bruce J. Malina, Jerome H. Neyrey
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 07/01/1996
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.05w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780664256814

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