Malina, Bruce J,

The New Testament world : insights from cultural anthropology / [print] Bruce J. Malina. - third edition., rev. and expandedition. - Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, (c)2001. - xv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.



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.



9780664222956

2001016238


Bible.--New Testament.


Sociology, Biblical.
Jews--Social life and customs--To 70 A.D.

BS2545.M251.N498 2001