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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 | |