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dc.contributor.authorFinney, Mark T.
dc.coverage.spatial355en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-08T14:02:34Z
dc.date.available2012-06-08T14:02:34Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifieruk.bl.ethos.527566
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/2702
dc.description.abstractMany recent studies in contemporary social anthropology have noted the vital import of the concepts of honour and shame and how these are able both to generate ideas of social identity within a community, and, in particular, to elucidate patterns of social behaviour. This has been notably evident amongst the communities of the Mediterranean littoral. At the same time, multi-disciplinary research exploring the communities of the Ancient Near East, especially those undertaken by social historians investigating the ancient societies of Israel, Greece, and Rome, have revealed that these, too, lived within the social constraints of honour and shame. These twin concepts are said to have had a profound influence upon such ancient communities, and, for some, are seen to represent the pivotal values of Greco-Roman social life. Unsurprisingly then, these same values are also evident within the narrative discourses of the Old and New Testaments, and a wide number of studies have sought to examine a particular text or social scenario through the lens of honour and shame. But despite having had a voluminous number of monographs and articles written on it, the letter of 1 Corinthians has remained relatively untouched by studies of honour-shame; yet it presents a unique expose of numerous aspects of social life in Greco-Roman first-century CE culture. My aim here is to examine the extent to which the social constraints of honour and shame may have had a direct influence upon the multifarious problems of social behaviour so evident within the community (not least the factionalism and strife which caused so many internal problems). In so doing, it presents a fresh reading of the letter, and the thesis it proposes is that the honour-shame model provides an appropriate and compelling framework within which to view the letter holistically within its social context.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subject.lccBS2675.6H634F5
dc.subject.lcshBible. N.T. Corinthians, 1st.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.en_US
dc.subject.lcshHonor in the Bibleen_US
dc.subject.lcshShame in the Bibleen_US
dc.subject.lcshEthnology in the Bibleen_US
dc.titleConflict in Corinth : the appropriateness of honour-shame as the primary social contexten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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