The New Testament world :
Malina, Bruce J.
The New Testament world : insights from cultural anthropology / Bruce J. Malina. - 3rd ed., rev. and expanded. - Louisville, KY : Westminster John Knox Press, c.2001. - xv, 256 p. : illus. ; pbk ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: Bible study and cultural anthropology --
Honor and shame: pivotal values of the first-century Mediterranean world --
First-century personality: the individual and the group --
Perception of limited good: maintaining one's social status --
Envy--the most grievous of all evils: envy and the evil-eye in the first-century Mediterranean world --
Kinship and marriage: fusing families together --
Clean and unclean: understanding rules of purity --
How Jesus groups evolved: understanding group development.
0664222951 (alk. paper)
2001016238
Bible.--New Testament--Social scientific criticism.
Sociology, Biblical.
Jews--Social life and customs--To 70 A.D.
Palestine--Social life and customs--To 70 A.D.
225.95/MAL
The New Testament world : insights from cultural anthropology / Bruce J. Malina. - 3rd ed., rev. and expanded. - Louisville, KY : Westminster John Knox Press, c.2001. - xv, 256 p. : illus. ; pbk ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: Bible study and cultural anthropology --
Honor and shame: pivotal values of the first-century Mediterranean world --
First-century personality: the individual and the group --
Perception of limited good: maintaining one's social status --
Envy--the most grievous of all evils: envy and the evil-eye in the first-century Mediterranean world --
Kinship and marriage: fusing families together --
Clean and unclean: understanding rules of purity --
How Jesus groups evolved: understanding group development.
0664222951 (alk. paper)
2001016238
Bible.--New Testament--Social scientific criticism.
Sociology, Biblical.
Jews--Social life and customs--To 70 A.D.
Palestine--Social life and customs--To 70 A.D.
225.95/MAL
