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This work demonstrates how the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews radically transformed the meaning of terms such as “honor” and “loyalty” for the members of the Christian minority community he addressed. Thus, for example, “honor,” a value that formerly supported kinship and political structures within the dominant Greco-Roman culture, is transformed into a term that signifies support for the fictive kinship within, and commitment to, the values of the alternative, Christian culture. DeSilva’s painstaking examination of hwo shame, honor, and benefaction helped to maintain the integrity of the Christian minority community will be of interest to students of rhetoric, interpreters of Hebrews, and persons interested in first-century social relationships.