A Marginal Scribe

A Marginal Scribe collects eight studies written over a period of two decades all of which use social-scientific criticism to interpret the Gospel of Matthew. It prefaces them first with a new chapter on the struggle between historians and social scientists since the Enlightenment and its parallel in New Testament studies which culminated in the emergence of social-scientific criticism; and second with a new chapter on recent social-scientific interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew. The eight more specialized studies cover a variety of themes and use a variety of models but concentrate and are held together by those that illumine social ranking and marginality. The book closes with a chapter that ties together these studies.