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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Bible Study and Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Presuppositions behind This Book | |
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| Nature, Culture, Person | |
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| Understanding Culture | |
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| The Bigger Picture--Cultural Cues | |
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| Why the Bigger Picture--Humans as Model Makers | |
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| Models in Cultural Anthropology | |
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| Summary | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Honor and Shame: Pivotal Values of the First-Century Mediterranean World | |
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| Understanding Honor | |
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| How Does a Person Get a Grant of Honor? | |
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| How Honor Is Acquired | |
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| Honor Symboled by Blood | |
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| Honor Symboled by Name | |
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| How Honor Is Displayed and Recognized | |
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| Honor and the Interpretation of a Challenge | |
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| Honor and Going to Court | |
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| Dimensions of Collective Honor | |
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| Honor and the Moral Division of Labor: The Double Standard | |
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| Toward Defining Honor and Shame | |
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| A Significant Clarification | |
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| Summary | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| The First-Century Personality: The Individual and the Group | |
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| The First-Century Personality | |
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| Group-Oriented Personality | |
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| The Makeup of Human Beings: A Three-Zone Model | |
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| The Makeup of Human Beings and God | |
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| Summary | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| The Perception of Limited Good: Maintaining One's Social Status | |
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| Ruralized Society | |
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| Kinship | |
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| Politics | |
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| City and Country | |
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| The Preindustrial City | |
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| Limited Good: A Basic Cue of Perception | |
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| The Honorable Person's Defensive Strategy | |
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| The Honorable Person's Dyadic Alliances | |
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| Limited Good and the Accumulation of Wealth | |
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| Limited Good and Personal Causality | |
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| Limited Good and the Structured Social World | |
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| Summary | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Envy--The Most Grievous of All Evils: Envy and the Evil-Eye in the First-Century Mediterranean World | |
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| The Social Roots of Envy | |
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| Envy and Honor Concerns | |
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| Envy and Limited Good | |
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| Observing Envy | |
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| Evil Eye: Proof of Envy | |
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| Protection against the Evil Eye | |
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| Protection against Envy | |
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| Envy Is Not Jealousy | |
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| Envy Is Not Hate | |
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| Envy Enters the Ten Commandments | |
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| Summary | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Kinship and Marriage: Fusing Families Together | |
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| Kinship | |
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| Main Structural Features of the Kinship System Compared | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Marriage Strategies in the Bible | |
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| The Patriarchal Immigrant Period | |
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| The Israelite Period | |
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| The Postexilic Period | |
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| The Pauline Period | |
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| The Post-Pauline Period | |
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| Summary | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Clean and Unclean: Understanding Rules of Purity | |
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| Sacred and Profane | |
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| Purity: Clean and Unclean | |
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| Anomalies and Abominations | |
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| General Israelite Perspectives | |
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| Classification of Persons in Israel | |
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| Classification of Clean and Unclean Animals | |
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| Sanctifying and Sacrifice | |
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| Purity Arrangements in Post-Jesus Groups | |
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| Summary | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| How Jesus Groups Evolved: Understanding Group Development | |
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| Why Small Groups At All | |
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| Stages of Small Group Development | |
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| Forming Jesus Groups | |
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| Storming in Jesus Groups | |
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| Norming in Jesus Groups | |
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| Performing in Jesus Groups | |
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| Jesus Groups Adjourn | |
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| Small Group Focuses | |
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| Social Movement Organization: Fictive Polity | |
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| Countermovement Organizations: Pharisees and Others | |
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| Elective Associations: Fictive Kin Groups | |
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| Summary | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| A Theological Conclusion | |
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| Study Questions for Testing the Hypothesis | |
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| Indexes | |
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| Index of Scriptural References | |
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| Index of Ancient Authors | |
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| Index of Subjects and Names | |
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| Figures and Tables | |
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| Figures | |
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| The Basic Presupposition--Nature, Culture, Person | |
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| Challenge and Response | |
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| Honor and Shame: Moral Division of Labor | |
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| Marriage Strategies in the Bible | |
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| Tables | |
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| Contrasting Child Rearing Approaches | |
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| Contrasting U.S. Persons with Ancient Mediterraneans | |
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| Envy in U.S. Experience and Ancient Mediterranean Experience | |
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| Jesus' Group and Post-Jesus Groups Compared | |