The New Testament world : insights from cultural anthropology /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Malina, Bruce J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Louisville, Ky. : Westminster/John Knox Press, ©1993.
Edition:Rev. ed.
Subjects:
Bible. > New Testament > Social scientific criticism.
Bible. > New Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Sociology, Biblical.
Jews > Social life and customs > To 70 A.D.
Palestine > Social life and customs > To 70 A.D.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bible study and cultural anthropology: Interpreting texts fairly
  • The presuppositions behind this book
  • Nature, culture, person
  • Understanding culture
  • The bigger picture--cultural clues
  • Why the bigger picture? humans as model-makers
  • Models in cultural anthropology
  • Summary
  • References and suggested readings
  • Honor and shame: pivotal values of the first century Mediterranean world
  • Understanding honor
  • How does a person get a grant of honor
  • How honor is acquired
  • Honor symboled by blood
  • Honor symboled by name
  • How honor is displayed and recognized
  • Honor and the interpretation of a challenge
  • Honor and going to court
  • Dimensions of collective honor
  • Honor and the moral division of labor: the double standard
  • Toward defining honor and shame
  • A significant clarification
  • Summary
  • Contrasting childrearing approaches
  • Testing the hypothesis
  • References and suggested readings
  • The first century personality: the individual and the group
  • The first-century personality
  • Group orientated personality
  • The make-up of human beings and God
  • Summary
  • Contrasting U.S persons with ancient Mediterraneans
  • Testing the hypothesis
  • References and suggested readings
  • The perception of limited good: Maintaining one's social status
  • The preindustrial city
  • Limited good: a basic cue of perception
  • The honorable person's defensive strategy
  • The honorable person's dyadic alliances
  • Limited good and the accumulation of wealth
  • Limited good and personal causality
  • Limited good and the structured social world
  • Summary
  • Testing the hypothesis
  • References and suggested readings
  • Kinship and marriage: fusing families together
  • Kinship
  • Main structural features of the kinship system compared
  • Marriage
  • Marriage strategies in the Bible
  • Summary
  • Testing the hypothesis
  • References and suggested readings
  • Clean and unclean: understanding rules of purity
  • Sacred and profane
  • Purity:clean and unclean
  • Anomalies and abominations
  • A classification of persons in Judaism
  • Classification of clean and unclean animals
  • Sacrifice: the process of holy offering
  • Christian purity arrangements
  • Summary
  • Testing the hypothesis
  • References and suggested readings.

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