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Article: INCULTURAT1ON OF THE JESUS TRADITION: THE IMPACT OF JESUS ON JEWISH AND ROMAN CULTURES.(Review)
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- Theological Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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INCULTURAT1ON OF THE JESUS TRADITION: THE IMPACT OF JESUS ON JEWISH AND ROMAN CULTURES. By Graydon F. Snyder. Harrisburg, Penn: Trinity, 1999. Pp. x + 247. $26.
Instead of asking how Greco-Roman culture impinged on the Jesus tradition and altered it, Snyder attempts to demonstrate how the Jesus tradition modified both Jewish and Roman cultures. The work is constructed in two uneven sections: part 1, "lnculturation in the New Testament," has three chapters dealing with the Synoptics, Paul, and John; part 3, "Trajectories of Inculturation," has nine chapters, treating of symbols, representation art, architecture, inscriptions, calendar, food and meals, gender ...