Honor, patronage, kinship & purity : unlocking New Testament culture /
DeSilva, David Arthur,
Honor, patronage, kinship & purity : unlocking New Testament culture / [print] David A. deSilva. - Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, (c)2000. - 336 pages ; 24 cm.
Introduction : Cultural awareness and reading scripture -- Honor and shame : connecting personhood to group values -- Honor and shame in the New Testament -- Patronage and reciprocity : the social context of grace -- Patronage and grace in the New Testament -- Kinship : living as a family in the First-century world -- Kinship and the "household of God" in the New Testament -- Purity and pollution : structuring the world before a Holy God -- Purity and the New Testament.
9780830815722
00057546
Bible.--New Testament--Socio-rhetorical criticism.
BS2380 BS2380.D457.H666 2000
Honor, patronage, kinship & purity : unlocking New Testament culture / [print] David A. deSilva. - Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, (c)2000. - 336 pages ; 24 cm.
Introduction : Cultural awareness and reading scripture -- Honor and shame : connecting personhood to group values -- Honor and shame in the New Testament -- Patronage and reciprocity : the social context of grace -- Patronage and grace in the New Testament -- Kinship : living as a family in the First-century world -- Kinship and the "household of God" in the New Testament -- Purity and pollution : structuring the world before a Holy God -- Purity and the New Testament.
9780830815722
00057546
Bible.--New Testament--Socio-rhetorical criticism.
BS2380 BS2380.D457.H666 2000