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	Professor Richard L. Rohrbaugh of Lewis & Clark College discusses the social and cultural context of the earliest Christian writings. We often forget how much life has changed since the industrial revolution. In our world, 98% are literate. In Jesus’ world, 98% were not. It was a world inhabited by peasant farmers, city artisans, rich patrons, desperate widows, social bandits, absentee landowners and corrupt judges. In these lectures we will look at the concepts of honor and shame, peasant economics, kinship and family patterns, social banditry and life in the cities and villages of the Mediterranean world. The lectures thus will offer an introduction to the new field of Social-Scientific Criticism. DISK 1 I: A Dysfunctional Family and its Neighbors: Luke 15:11-32 • 39 minutes II: Who Did Jesus Think He Was? • 40 minutes III: Purity and Pollution in Ancient Israel • 39 minutes IV: Anti-Language in the Book of John • 43 minutes DISK 2 V: Birth Narrative • 34 minutes VI: Getting the Bible into English • 41 minutes DISK 3 VII: Honor and Shame: Core Values of the Mediterranean World • 43 minutes VIII: The Evil Eye: Core Belief in the Biblical World • 42 minutes IX: Jesus: Village Artisan • 53 minutes X: Was Jesus Really a Capitalist? • 40 minutes Total running time: 10 hours ISBN 978-1-935335-19-1 Buy together with "Dirt, Bones, Potsherds and Stones" DVD Lectures and save 50!

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