Pieter F. Craffert

Gossiping Jesus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Daniels offers a novel and innovative reading of John's Gospel. The identification of gossip events as the social dynamics for constituting Jesus as a social personage provides a fresh reading of the Gospel of John and opens insights into the cultural process that have not been explored before.”

The Galilean Wonderworker

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Wallis makes a major contribution to the study of the origins of Jesus’ reputation as a healer and exorcist by situating these activities within a historical and culturally sensitive framework of how sickness and healing were understood at the time. This is an important study of how theological reflection should be situated in historical and cultural realities.”

The Gospel of Mark in Context

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Social-scientific interpretation made us aware of the cultural embeddedness of language, persons, and events. . . . Context, Santiago Guijarro illustrates in this collection of studies, is a social context, and the social sciences provide the tools for unlocking that context. A variety of aspects of Mark’s Gospel are illuminated in this book by means of social-scientific tools. This is a truly contextual interpretation of Mark’s gospel.”