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