`E writes with admirable clarity and enthusiasm.' - Publciation Unknown`For those whose sudy of the New Testament has been of an exclusively literary-critical type, the book offers a glimpse of how alternative perspectives can be opened up.' - Church Times

• Preface 1. Social worlds, social sciences and the New Testament 2. Reading the Mediterranean social script 3. Glossolalia and the admission of Gentiles into the early Christian community 4. Sectarianism and the conflict at Antioch 5. Introverted sectarianism at Quran and in the Johannine community 6. Millennialism and Daniel 7 7. The social function of 4 Ezra 8. Sorcery accusations and the Apocalypse References Index

`E writes with admirable clarity and enthusiasm.' - Publciation Unknown`For those whose sudy of the New Testament has been of an exclusively literary-critical type, the book offers a glimpse of how alternative perspectives can be opened up.' - Church Times

• Preface 1. Social worlds, social sciences and the New Testament 2. Reading the Mediterranean social script 3. Glossolalia and the admission of Gentiles into the early Christian community 4. Sectarianism and the conflict at Antioch 5. Introverted sectarianism at Quran and in the Johannine community 6. Millennialism and Daniel 7 7. The social function of 4 Ezra 8. Sorcery accusations and the Apocalypse References Index

`E writes with admirable clarity and enthusiasm.' - Publciation Unknown`For those whose sudy of the New Testament has been of an exclusively literary-critical type, the book offers a glimpse of how alternative perspectives can be opened up.' - Church Times

• Preface 1. Social worlds, social sciences and the New Testament 2. Reading the Mediterranean social script 3. Glossolalia and the admission of Gentiles into the early Christian community 4. Sectarianism and the conflict at Antioch 5. Introverted sectarianism at Quran and in the Johannine community 6. Millennialism and Daniel 7 7. The social function of 4 Ezra 8. Sorcery accusations and the Apocalypse References Index