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Despising Shame: Honor Discourse and Community Maintenance in the Epistle to the Hebrews, Revised Edition
David Arthur deSilva
ISBN
9781589834002
Volume
SBLStBL 21
Status
Available
Price
$47.00
Publication Date
March 2009
Paperback

$47.00

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.