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  • From: Zeba Crook <zeba_crook AT carleton.ca>
  • To: Corpus-Paul <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Voluntary Associations and the Pauline Church
  • Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:13:18 -0400 (EDT)

I highly recommend a volume of essays edited by John Kloppenborg and
Stephen Wilson on Voluntary associations in the ancient Med. Also,
books by Richard Ascough and Phil Harland both significantly extend our
understanding of early churches as associations beyond Meeks's work.

Zeb


peterson AT austingrad.edu wrote:


>> I am preparing to begin a seminar on Social Science Interpretation of
the
>> New Testament with Dr Carolyn Osiek at Brite Divinity School and want
to
>> focus my study on the influence of Greco-Roman Voluntary Associations
on
>> the
>> formation of the Pauline Church. Does any have suggestions on
resources
>> for
>> such a study?
>
>I'd suggest Wayne Meeks's First Urban Christians (esp. pp. 13, 31–32,
>77–79, 84, 158), still a basic discussion, which can be refined via
>reference to John S. Kloppenborg, ed., Voluntary Associations in the
>Greco-Roman World, and also Dennis Smith's From Symposium to Eucharist.
>
>Best wishes!
>
>Jeff Peterson
>Austin Graduate School of Theology
>Austin, Texas
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