TY  - BOOK
AU  - Malina,Bruce J.
TI  - The New Testament world: insights from cultural anthropology 
SN  - 0664222951 (alk. paper)
U1  - 225.95/MAL 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Louisville, KY
PB  - Westminster John Knox Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - New Testament
KW  - Social scientific criticism
KW  - Sociology, Biblical
KW  - Jews
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - To 70 A.D
KW  - Palestine
N1  - 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
ER  -