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Peter Oakes has long been recognized for his illuminating use of Greco-Roman material culture and social-scientific criticism to interpret the New Testament. This volume combines his best work in a single volume and introduces a substantial new essay that challenges current scholarly approaches to paradoxical teachings of the New Testament. Of special interest to Oakes throughout this book is...

of property was owned by the elite. Extremely few craftworkers would have owned their workshops. The cabinetmaker’s renting of his house linked him to the owner of I.10.4 in a relationship of economic dependency. The relationship probably had something of a patron-client nature to it, albeit maybe in informal terms. As Bruce Malina writes, across the first-century Mediterranean world, the relationship between landlord and tenant often took on the character of favor-giving dependency via events such
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