Book
The New Testament world : insights from cultural anthropology / Bruce J. Malina.
Record details
- ISBN: 0804204233
- ISBN: 9780804204231
- ISBN: 0334022150
- ISBN: 9780334022152
- Physical Description: ix, 169 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : John Knox Press, ©1981.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Bible study and cultural anthropology : The presuppositions behind this book ; Nature, culture, person ; Understanding culture ; the bigger picture- cultural cues ; Why the bigger picture- man the model-maker ; Models in cultural anthropology ; Summary -- 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 ; Summary. Testing the hypothesis -- The first-century personality: The individual and the group : The first-century personality ; Dyadic personality ; The makeup of a man: A three-zone model ; The makeup of man and God ; Summary ; Testing the hypotheses -- The perception of limited good : The preindustrial city ; Limited good: a basic cue of perception ; The honorable man's defensive strategy ; The honorable's man'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 -- Kinship and marriage : Kinship ; Main structural features of the kinship system compared ; Marriage ; Marriage strategies in the Bible ; The patriarchal period ; The Israelite period ; The Jewish period ; The Pauline period ; The Post-Pauline period ; Summary ; Testing the Hypothesis -- 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 hypothesis -- A theological conclusion. |