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The New Testament World

by: Malina, Bruce J.

The New Testament World

by: Malina, Bruce J.

ISBN 13:
9780664222956
ISBN 10:
0664222951
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 03/01/2001
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

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Summary

A classroom standard for two decades,The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropologyhas introduced students to both the New Testament and the social-scientific study of the New Testament. This revised and expanded third edition offers new chapters on envy and the Jesus movement, updates chapters from earlier editions, augments the bibliography, and offers student study questions.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Bible Study and Cultural Anthropology

(6)

Presuppositions behind This Book

(1)

Nature, Culture, Person

(4)

Understanding Culture

(2)

The Bigger Picture---Cultural Cues

(4)

Why the Bigger Picture---Humans as Model Makers

(2)

Models in Cultural Anthropology

(5)

Summary

(1)

References and Suggested Readings

(2)

Honor and Shame: Pivotal Values of the First-Century Mediterranean World

(31)

Understanding Honor

(2)

How Does a Person Get a Grant of Honor?

(1)

How Honor Is Acquired

(3)

Honor Symboled by Blood

(1)

Honor Symboled by Name

(1)

How Honor Is Displayed and Recognized

(2)

Honor and the Interpretation of a Challenge

(3)

Honor and Going to Court

(1)

Dimensions of Collective Honor

(3)

Honor and the Moral Division of Labor: The Double Standard

(2)

Toward Defining Honor and Shame

(3)

A Significant Clarification

(1)

Summary

(4)

References and Suggested Readings

(2)

The First-Century Personality: The Individual and the Group

(23)

The First-Century Personality

(2)

Group-Oriented Personality

(8)

The Makeup of Human Beings: A Three-Zone Model

(3)

The Makeup of Human Beings and God

(4)

Summary

(4)

References and Suggested Readings

(2)

The Perception of Limited Good: Maintaining One's Social Status

(27)

Ruralized Society

(1)

Kinship

(1)

Politics

(1)

City and Country

(2)

The Preindustrial City

(4)

Limited Good: A Basic Cue of Perception

(1)

The Honorable Person's Defensive Strategy

(3)

The Honorable Person's Dyadic Alliances

(4)

Limited Good and the Accumulation of Wealth

(3)

Limited Good and Personal Causality

100

(4)

Limited Good and the Structured Social World

104

(1)

Summary

105

(1)

References and Suggested Readings

106

(2)

Envy---The Most Grievous of All Evils: Envy and the Evil-Eye in the First-Century Mediterranean World

108

(26)

The Social Roots of Envy

108

(2)

Envy and Honor Concerns

110

(2)

Envy and Limited Good

112

(6)

Observing Envy

118

(2)

Evil Eye: Proof of Envy

120

(3)

Protection against the Evil Eye

123

(2)

Protection against Envy

125

(1)

Envy Is Not Jealousy

126

(2)

Envy Is Not Hate

128

(1)

Envy Enters the Ten Commandments

129

(1)

Summary

130

(2)

References and Suggested Readings

132

(2)

Kinship and Marriage: Fusing Families Together

134

(27)

Kinship

134

(2)

Main Structural Features of the Kinship System Compared

136

(7)

Marriage

143

(2)

Marriage Strategies in the Bible

145

(13)

The Patriarchal Immigrant Period

146

(1)

The Israelite Period

147

(3)

The Postexilic Period

150

(4)

The Pauline Period

154

(3)

The Post-Pauline Period

157

(1)

Summary

158

(1)

References and Suggested Readings

159

(2)

Clean and Unclean: Understanding Rules of Purity

161

(37)

Sacred and Profane

161

(3)

Purity: Clean and Unclean

164

(1)

Anomalies and Abominations

165

(5)

General Israelite Perspectives

170

(3)

Classification of Persons in Israel

173

(4)

Classification of Clean and Unclean Animals

177

(3)

Sanctifying and Sacrifice

180

(7)

Purity Arrangements in Post-Jesus Groups

187

(9)

Summary

196

(1)

References and Suggested Readings

196

(2)

How Jesus Groups Evolved: Understanding Group Development

198

(23)

Why Small Groups At All

201

(6)

Stages of Small Group Development

207

(4)

Forming Jesus Groups

208

(1)

Storming in Jesus Groups

208

(1)

Norming in Jesus Groups

209

(1)

Performing in Jesus Groups

209

(1)

Jesus Groups Adjourn

210

(1)

Small Group Focuses

211

(1)

Social Movement Organization: Fictive Polity

212

(1)

Countermovement Organizations: Pharisees and Others

212

(2)

Elective Associations: Fictive Kin Groups

214

(3)

Summary

217

(2)

References and Suggested Readings

219

(2)

A Theological Conclusion

221

(2)

Study Questions for Testing the Hypothesis

223

(22)

Indexes

245

(7)

Index of Scriptural References

245

(6)

Index of Ancient Authors

251

(1)

Index of Subjects and Names

252

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The New Testament World

The New Testament World

9780664222956

0664222951

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