Well worth following the Fortress Press Group on Faithlife - as then you can take advantage of quite a nice discount on:
https://www.logos.com/product/15515/social-science-commentary-on-the-book-of-acts
The Post says the offer lasts till "19 June" but was only posted yesterday
Thank you for posting this! I've been wanting to try this series and at this price I can keep at least one volume
DAL
Thank you for posting this! I've been wanting to try this series and at this price I can keep at least one volume DAL
.... and the price is $7.99 (not $27.99) using the Fortress Press coupon
Thank you for posting this! I've been wanting to try this series and at this price I can keep at least one volume DAL .... and the price is $7.99 (not $27.99) using the Fortress Press coupon
😒 Context suggests is $7.99 not $27.99 but for those who need clarification get the coupon 😜
Was a little short on details, so as to encourage people to go to the Fortress Press Group [;)]
Thanks Glenn, good tip. I am a follower now and picked that book to give the series a try, Thanks again.
Was a little short on details, so as to encourage people to go to the Fortress Press Group
thanks for OP and this tip. am a member, but hadn't seen it yet. got it!
I am a follower now and picked that book to give the series a try
Would be nice if more publishers did something like this - good way to get us hooked on a series [Y] Then again maybe better for my bank account this way [:D]
Any one have any thoughts on this book/series? I looked through the see inside and it didn't really seem all that interesting to me... am i wrong?
Mattillo,
Having been an advocate and practitioner of social science methodologies for quite a while, I must admit that I was a little disappointed. Rather than the groundbreaking insights and ideas I remember being impressed with from Malina and others in the 1980s, the analyses in these works seem to be a tired "plug and chug" application of various theories. On the other hand, if you're not familiar with these methods, it might be worth a look.
Thank you Lew!
Thanks!
Thanks. I got the code and bought the book. Did anyone get another book to show up? Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible, Vol 5 DBW showed up at the same time in my library but doesn't show up in my order history.
Never mind, I found the answer to my question in the Faithlife Group. It is a temporary license.
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... Rather than the groundbreaking insights and ideas I remember being impressed with from Malina and others in the 1980s, the analyses in these works seem to be a tired "plug and chug" application of various theories. ...
What groundbreaking insights from Malina are your referring to? Can you point me to some work?
While aimed at students, his "The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology" pointed lots of us into a fresh methodological fields rather than, say, traditional historical critical studies. I remember being interested in what he had to say in Semeia 35. I thought the work in the Context Group was interesting. Maybe I'm just showing my age.
Or maybe the difference is that I was influenced with his work as a theoretician, but maybe his work as a literary analyst flows too naturally from that theory. For example, once you know about honor-shame, or limited good, and are alert to these concepts within a text, it doesn't take much exegetical creativity to draw some conclusions based on these concepts.
Thanks, Lew. That helps. I think I understand better the perspective coming in from the mid-80's versus the application of the methodology to specific texts later on. I'm new to the subject so I'm finding the whole area interesting. I became acquainted after reading a first edition copy of Malina and Rohrbough's Commentary on the Synoptics (1992). But that was just in the past year for me.
I have to admit that I'm not the most creative thinker so reading different perspectives helps me along the way. The subject series does that for me as well as Ben Witherington's Socio-Rhetorical series. I have them both.
Know that I have this new area to explore I'm seeing a number of resources in Logos that are now on my wish list.
