The Social Context of Paul's Ministry: Tentmaking and Apostleship

In this slim, readable, and provocative volume (Journal of Biblical Literature), Ronald Hock focuses on the apostle Paul and his work within the social and intellectual context of the Greek East of the early Roman Empire.

Hock discusses the New Testament evidence concerning tentmaking in relation to Paul's life as an apostle of Christ. Relevant literary and nonliterary texts from outside the New Testament add detail to a picture of ancient society and open new areas for study. The author describes the typical experiences that arose from such a way of life - traveling, the tentmaking trade, the missionary use of the workshop, attitudes toward work, and Paul's own reflections on the significance of his tentmaking for the apostolic self-understanding.

Author: Ronald F. Hock
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.58w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780800662042

About the Author
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Ronald F. Hock is Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is also author of The Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas in the Scholars Bible series (1996) and co-editor (with Edward N. O'Neil) of the three-volume The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric (1986; 2002; Vol. 3, forthcoming).

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