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Victor H. Matthews and Don C. Benjamin (eds.) · 1996
A peer-reviewed collection of biblical scholarship applying honor and shame as a social-scientific analytical framework to both Hebrew Bible and New Testament texts, with responses from anthropologists evaluating the methodological rigor of these applications.
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What this book knows
Honor and shame are the primary social currencies of the biblical world, structuring every human and divine relationship from household to cosmos.
shame
The narrator pronounces dishonor upon Michal in the most devastating manner possible: she remains barren until the day of her death.
S6HS-RC-059'You are satisfied with contempt instead of honor… and contempt will cover over your honor.' The prophets employed the formula in relation to the social ethos.
S6HS-RC-085Michal's contempt for David's dancing — the narrator conceives of the estrangement in terms of honor and shame, implied by the verb used.
S6HS-RC-057obedience-and-authority
The shame of being disowned by one's own occurs again; the crowds give a counter-challenge to Jesus' honor claim and Pilate's gambit.
S6HS-RC-106The people simply withdrew from the public practice of the cult. Joel's concern is with the people's response to catastrophe — the honor/shame model fits.
S6HS-RC-044religion-and-sex
The woman of the Song is self-assured in pursuit of her lover. Contrary to honor/shame customs, this assertive woman independently preserves her own honor.
S6HS-RC-029Illuminates
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