Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity.(Book review)

Publication: Biblical Theology Bulletin

Publication Date: 22-MAR-08

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Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity. Edited by Irad Malkin. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. Pp. vi + 149. Cloth, $125.00.

Over the last forty years a modest paradigm shift has taken place in the historical study of the Mediterranean region. The central issue, among both historians and ethnographers, has been finding "common denominators in the Mediterranean past which may serve to justify the systematic comparison of social, economic, and even cultural history across a wide arc of time that reaches from the Bronze Age to the edge of modernity" (10).

The earlier consensus followed the work of Fernand Braudel (The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II [London: Collins,...

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