The New Testament World, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded: Insights from Cultural Anthropology / Edition 3

The New Testament World, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded: Insights from Cultural Anthropology / Edition 3

by Bruce J. Malina
ISBN-10:
0664222951
ISBN-13:
9780664222956
Pub. Date:
02/01/2001
Publisher:
Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN-10:
0664222951
ISBN-13:
9780664222956
Pub. Date:
02/01/2001
Publisher:
Westminster John Knox Press
The New Testament World, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded: Insights from Cultural Anthropology / Edition 3

The New Testament World, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded: Insights from Cultural Anthropology / Edition 3

by Bruce J. Malina
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Overview

A classroom standard for two decades, The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology has 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780664222956
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 02/01/2001
Edition description: Revised, Expand
Pages: 277
Sales rank: 520,546
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile: 1300L (what's this?)

About the Author

Bruce J. Malina is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity of the Department of Theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

Table of Contents

Prefacexi
Acknowledgmentsxv
Introduction: Bible Study and Cultural Anthropology1
Presuppositions behind This Book7
Nature, Culture, Person7
Understanding Culture11
The Bigger Picture--Cultural Cues13
Why the Bigger Picture--Humans as Model Makers17
Models in Cultural Anthropology19
Summary24
References and Suggested Readings25
1.Honor and Shame: Pivotal Values of the First-Century Mediterranean World27
Understanding Honor30
How Does a Person Get a Grant of Honor?32
How Honor Is Acquired33
Honor Symboled by Blood36
Honor Symboled by Name37
How Honor Is Displayed and Recognized38
Honor and the Interpretation of a Challenge40
Honor and Going to Court43
Dimensions of Collective Honor43
Honor and the Moral Division of Labor: The Double Standard46
Toward Defining Honor and Shame48
A Significant Clarification51
Summary52
References and Suggested Readings56
2.The First-Century Personality: The Individual and the Group58
The First-Century Personality58
Group-Oriented Personality60
The Makeup of Human Beings: A Three-Zone Model68
The Makeup of Human Beings and God71
Summary75
References and Suggested Readings79
3.The Perception of Limited Good: Maintaining One's Social Status81
Ruralized Society81
Kinship82
Politics83
City and Country83
The Preindustrial City85
Limited Good: A Basic Cue of Perception89
The Honorable Person's Defensive Strategy90
The Honorable Person's Dyadic Alliances93
Limited Good and the Accumulation of Wealth97
Limited Good and Personal Causality100
Limited Good and the Structured Social World104
Summary105
References and Suggested Readings106
4.Envy--The Most Grievous of All Evils: Envy and the Evil-Eye in the First-Century Mediterranean World108
The Social Roots of Envy108
Envy and Honor Concerns110
Envy and Limited Good112
Observing Envy118
Evil Eye: Proof of Envy120
Protection against the Evil Eye123
Protection against Envy125
Envy Is Not Jealousy126
Envy Is Not Hate128
Envy Enters the Ten Commandments129
Summary130
References and Suggested Readings132
5.Kinship and Marriage: Fusing Families Together134
Kinship134
Main Structural Features of the Kinship System Compared136
Marriage143
Marriage Strategies in the Bible145
The Patriarchal Immigrant Period146
The Israelite Period147
The Postexilic Period150
The Pauline Period154
The Post-Pauline Period157
Summary158
References and Suggested Readings159
6.Clean and Unclean: Understanding Rules of Purity161
Sacred and Profane161
Purity: Clean and Unclean164
Anomalies and Abominations165
General Israelite Perspectives170
Classification of Persons in Israel173
Classification of Clean and Unclean Animals177
Sanctifying and Sacrifice180
Purity Arrangements in Post-Jesus Groups187
Summary196
References and Suggested Readings196
7.How Jesus Groups Evolved: Understanding Group Development198
Why Small Groups At All201
Stages of Small Group Development207
Forming Jesus Groups208
Storming in Jesus Groups208
Norming in Jesus Groups209
Performing in Jesus Groups209
Jesus Groups Adjourn210
Small Group Focuses211
Social Movement Organization: Fictive Polity212
Countermovement Organizations: Pharisees and Others212
Elective Associations: Fictive Kin Groups214
Summary217
References and Suggested Readings219
A Theological Conclusion221
Study Questions for Testing the Hypothesis223
Indexes245
Index of Scriptural References245
Index of Ancient Authors251
Index of Subjects and Names252
Figures and Tables
Figures
Figure 1.The Basic Presupposition--Nature, Culture, Person8
Figure 2.Challenge and Response34
Figure 3.Honor and Shame: Moral Division of Labor50
Figure 4.Marriage Strategies in the Bible159
Tables
Table 1.Contrasting Child Rearing Approaches54
Table 2.Contrasting U.S. Persons with Ancient Mediterraneans76
Table 3.Envy in U.S. Experience and Ancient Mediterranean Experience131
Table 4.Jesus' Group and Post-Jesus Groups Compared218
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