Christian Fasting

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. An Anthropologist Reads the New Testament
2. Fasting in the Old Testament and Ancient Mediterranean World
3. Fasting in the New Testament: A Social-Scientific View of Fasting in the First-Century Mediterranean World
4. Fasting in Evangelical Christianity
5. Evangelicalism and the New Testament in Dialogue
Bibliography
Index
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Ancient Near East; Evangelicalism; Fasting; Gospels; Jesus; Judaism; New Testament; Old Testament; Rituals; Christian fasting; biblical studies; evangelical Christianity; New Testament studies; Old Testament studies; social-scientific criticism; honor and shame; dyadism and kinship; limited good and envy; Mediterranean anthropology; Jewish identity and ritual; prayer and fasting; private vs public piety; Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6); Jesus' forty-day fast (Matthew 4); Anna the prophetess (Luke 2); Esther and Purim; Ezra and Nehemiah; Greco-Roman religious practices; Christian asceticism