Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
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My review is not low because of a conservative anti-Crossan bias (not that I'm unbiased), but the book, for all its great length and detail about the cultural world of the 1c Roman empire, barely gets into the Apostles teachings and theology.Perhaps more inexcusable, is the fact that the book interacts almost not at all with any dissenting scholarly opinions, and completely ignores the most significant Pauline scholars out there.Useful perhaps to understand the culture of the time, but not helpful to understand Paul's thought. But still Wayne Meeks "The First Urban Christians" does a much more thorough job at this.