Hanson and Oakman's award-winning and illuminating volume has become a widely used and cited introduction to the social context of Jesus and the early Jesus movement. This second edition updates all the discussions in light of more recent scholarship, improves...
Through judicious use of social-science methodology, Hanson and Oakman's enormously helpful volume explains in a readable way the primary social institutions and structures in ancient Palestine, with a view to how they were reflected in and shaped the early Jesus movement.