Matthew, Paul, and the Anthropology of Law

by David A Kaden

Drawing from Michel Foucault's understanding of power, David A. Kaden explores how relations of power are instrumental in forming law as an object of discourse in the Gospel of Matthew and in the Letters of Paul. This is a comparative project in that the author examines the role that power relations play in generating discussions of law in the first century context, and in several ethnographies from the field of the anthropology of law from Indonesia,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 316154076X
• ISBN13: 9783161540769
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"