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Chargement... The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology (édition 1981)par Bruce J Malina (Auteur)
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A classroom standard for two decades, "The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology" has introduced students to both the New Testament and the social-scientific study of the New Testament. This revised and expanded third edition offers new chapters on envy and the Jesus movement, updates chapters from earlier editions, augments the bibliography, and offers student study questions. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Malina characterizes NT society as a collectivist, nonintrospective, stable society in which the social ontology is permeated with concepts of honor vs. shame and clean vs. unclean. People see themselves not as individuals (a la America) but as a part of a group, usually family. As such introspective accounts of someone's psychology are not important. The NT has very little of this type of description that modern Western culture thrives on.
NT society is kept stable by a system of social checks and balances. In America, there is a common belief that prosperity is possible for everyone. If we just redistribute goods better, everyone can be middle-class or above. Not so in the NT world. There the assumption is that all goods are limited. Any gain is at the expense of others in your similar social group or class. Hence envy is a powerful threat. Attracting the envy of others is dangerous, as they may do anything from gossiping about you to killing you. (The Jewish authorities' envy of Jesus is given as their motivation for crucifying him.) One form of envy is in the evil eye, which your enemy can give you as a curse. Certain amulets and spells could protect against the evil eye.
Malina sheds light on various NT passages and stories. For example, when Jesus uses the phrase, "Truly, I say to you..." he is not just emphasizing how true his saying is. It's more like "I swear on my honor, this is true..." Fear of others' envy and anger at his rising above the social status he was born into also explains both the messianic secret in Mark and Jesus' complaints that a prophet is never accepted in his homeland. Little asides like this make the book come together.
When I took Old Testament as Literature, my professor one day went on this rant about how the Israelites loved their wives. Malina points out that marriages in these times were arranged, and how a wife was basically a stranger in her husband's family's home until she bore a son. Her son was her main advocate in family affairs, not her husband, who advocated his mother. Hopefully Malina's research reaches a more popular audience so we can avoid these anachronisms. Highly recommended.
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