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What do the social sciences have to contribute to the study of Jesus and the Gospels? This is the fundamental question that these essays all address. From analyses of ancient economics to altered states of consciousness, politics, ritual, kinship, and labeling, this group of scholars presents salient contextual data needed to yield the most fruitful and rich study of Jesus and the Gospels.

peers. Furthermore, they teach in institutions that do not have hermetically sealed departments. This means that they do in fact interact with faculty members and students from a range of departments. Finally, as U.S.-enculturated persons, they are rationalistic pragmatists. As pragmatists, they believe that reality exists all around; as socially enculturated rationalists, they believe that this reality has been and is socially interpreted (not socially constructed).4 For the most part, social-scientific
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