Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and indexes.
The problem of ancient personality -- The encomium: a native model of personality -- The public defense speech: describing persons -- Physiognomics and personality: looking at Paul in the acts of Paul -- Ancient mediterranean persons in cultural perspective -- Paul: apostle and prophet.
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How did ancient persons understand themselves, other people, and the world around them? Is there a marked contrast between their understandings of "self" and "other" and the way modern Westerners define those concepts? Bruce Malina and Jerome Neyrey focus on the figure of Paul to provide a comprehensive investigation of how one man was perceived in the ancient world. Drawing on primary sources from antiquity, as well as lessons from cultural anthropology, the authors help provide a fuller understanding of the person of Paul and his world. By doing so, they offer readers a new, and more balanced, way to approach the New Testament.