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.