The Struggle over Class: Socioeconomic Analysis of Ancient Christian Texts

Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series

by G. Anthony Keddie, Michael Flexsenhar (Editor), Steven Friesen (Editor)

The Struggle over Class brings together scholars from the fields of New Testament and early Christianity to examine Christian texts in light of the category of class. Historically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated, this collection presents a rangeof approaches to, and applications of, class in the study of the epistles, the gospels, Acts, apocalyptic texts, and patristic literature. Contributors Alicia J. Batten, Alan H. Cadwallader, Cavan W. Concannon, Zeba Crook, James Crossley, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Philip F. Esler, Michael Flexsenhar III, Steven J. Friesen, Caroline Johnson Hodge, G. Anthony Keddie, Jaclyn Maxwell, Christina Petterson, Jennifer Quigley, Elisabeth Schèussler Fiorenza, Danièelle Slootjes, and Emma Wasserman challenge both scholarsand students to articulate their own positions in the ongoing scholarly struggle over class as an analytical category.

472 pages, Hardcover

Published October 15, 2021