Portraits of Paul: An Archaeology of Ancient Personality

by Bruce J. Malina

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664256813
• ISBN13: 9780664256814
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"