Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity – Unlocking New Testament Culture - David A. DeSilva

Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity – Unlocking New Testament Culture

Buch | Softcover
408 Seiten
2022
IVP Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5140-0385-5 (ISBN)
39,85 inkl. MwSt
In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a milestone study, a careful explanation of four essential cultural themes offers readers a window into how early Christians sustained commitment to distinctly Christian identity and practice, and with it, a new appreciation of the New Testament, the gospel, and Christian discipleship.
For contemporary Western readers, it can be easy to miss or misread cultural nuances in the New Testament. To hear the text correctly we must be attuned to its original context. As David deSilva demonstrates, keys to interpretation are found in paying attention to four essential cultural themes: honor and shame, patronage and reciprocity, kinship and family, and purity and pollution.
Through our understanding of honor and shame in the Mediterranean world, we gain new appreciation for how early Christians sustained commitment to a distinctive Christian identity and practice. By examining the protocols of patronage and reciprocity, we grasp more firmly the connections between God’s grace and our response. In exploring kinship and household relations, we grasp more fully the ethos of the early Christian communities as a new family brought together by God. And by investigating the notions of purity and pollution along with their associated practices, we realize how the ancient map of society and the world was revised by the power of the gospel.
This new edition is thoroughly revised and expanded with up-to-date scholarship. A milestone work in the study of New Testament cultural backgrounds, Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity offers a deeper appreciation of the New Testament, the gospel, and Christian discipleship.

David A. deSilva (PhD, Emory University) is Trustees’ Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary. He is the author of over thirty books, including An Introduction to the New Testament, Discovering Revelation, Introducing the Apocrypha, and commentaries on Galatians, Ephesians, and Hebrews. He is also an ordained elder in the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Abbreviations



Introduction: Cultural Awareness and Reading Scripture

1. Honor and Shame: Connecting Personhood to Group Values

2. Honor and Shame in the New Testament

3. Patronage and Reciprocity: The Social Context of Grace

4. Patronage and Grace in the New Testament

5. Kinship: Living as a Family in the First-Century World

6. Kinship and the "Household of God" in the New Testament

7. Purity and Pollution: Ordering the World Before a Holy God

8. Purity and the New Testament

Conclusion



Resources for Further Study

Name Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index

Ancient Writings Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort IL
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 232 mm
Gewicht 594 g
Themenwelt Sonstiges Geschenkbücher
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 1-5140-0385-6 / 1514003856
ISBN-13 978-1-5140-0385-5 / 9781514003855
Zustand Neuware
Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR)
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart

von Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson; Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson …

Buch | Hardcover (2022)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
34,00