Ebook: Social-Science Commentary on the Deutero-Pauline Letters

The Social–Science Commentary series pioneers an alternative commentary genre, providing in this volume the text of the deutero–Pauline letters and cultural notes on them. The Social–Science Commentary on the Deutero–Pauline Letters provides essential "reading scenarios" on specific cultural phenomena in these letters, including forgery, normative conflict, paideia (training), and Household Codes. This volume highlights the transformation of the memory of Paul in early Christianity as reflecting the concerns and interest of communities after Paul's death.

About the Author
Bruce J. Malina is professor of new testament at Creighton University, Omaha, and author or coauthor or editor of many influential volumes in New Testament, including several recent Fortress Press titles: Social Science Commentary on the Book of Revelation (2000); Social Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels (2nd edition 2003); Social Science Commentary on the Gospel of John (1998); and The Social Gospel of Jesus (2001).

John J. Pilch teaches at John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Among his numerous publications are The Cultural World of Jesus: Sunday by Sunday (1995-1997), The Cultural Dictionary of the Bible (1999), and Healing in the New Testament (2000). Malina and Pilch have co–-authored the Social Science Commentary on the Book of Acts (2008) and the Social–-Science Commentary on the Letters of Paul (2005), both from Fortress Press.