K. C. Hanson and Douglas E. Oakman
RESOURCES FOR CHAPTER ONE
Chapter Summary
Bridging the cultural gap calls for using more adequate cultural scenarios. This means that we need to draw on social-scientific studies regarding Mediterranean and peasant studies. And these studies need to be set within context of the study of Palestinian history and archaeology, especially the study of first-century Galilee. The closer the analogies to ancient Palestine in terms of time and space, the fewer cultural hurdles one needs to account for. But our basic premise is that drawing analogies from the Mediterranean world will provide better starting-points than our own experiences in the modern Western world. A comparative approach, however, is not only helpful, but vital. We use explicit models in order to clarify our understanding of first-century Palestinian institutions. These models are not set in stone, but are always open to adjustment as we develop new insights and find new information. And while the social sciences predominate in our methodology, we are also aware that other methods must be taken into account, especially history, archaeology, and historical geography. A balance must always be maintained between the general and the particular, between the typical and the unique. In social-scientific perspective, our primary focus will be on the typical and general in its application to understanding the particular and unique. |
Near East Map #2 (Oriental Institute)
Map of Southern Syria and Palestine (Oriental Institute)
Map of Galilee (Bible History)
Map of Galilee (William R. Shepherd, Wikipedia)
View of the Hinnom Valley, Jerusalem
Ancient Galilean road, northwest of Sepphoris
Model of Ancient Jerusalem (See the Holy Land)photos and descriptions
Model of Ancient Jerusalem (YK Production)video
Five Gospels Parallels: full-text in parallel frames (John W. Marshall)
The Online Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek-English Lexicon (Thesaurus Lingua Graecae)
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