Semeia 68
Honor and Shame in the World of the Bible
Victor H. Matthews and Don C. Benjamin, eds.
Copyright © 1995 [1996] by Society of Biblical Literature.
Published in Atlanta, GA.
Contents
Social Sciences and Biblical Studies
Victor H. Matthews and Don C. Benjamin
Biblical Studies
Hebrew Bible:
“My Beloved is Mine and I Am His” (Song 2:16): The Song of Songs and Honor and Shame
Dianne Bergant
“Return to Yahweh”: Honor and Shame in Joel
Ronald A. Simkins
Honor and Shame in the David Narratives
Gary Stansell
New Testament:
How Honorable! How Shameful! a Cultural Analysis of Matthew’s Makarisms and Reproaches
K. C. Hanson
Despising the Shame of the Cross: Honor and Shame in the Johannine Passion Narrative
Jerome H. Neyrey
Responses
The Anthropology of Honor and Shame: Culture, Values, and Practice
John K. Chance
An Anthropologist’s Response to the Use of Social Science Models in Biblical Studies
Gideon M. Kressel
Don C. Benjamin
7637 Moline St.
Houston, TX 77087
(713) 645-9035
Dianne Bergant, C.S.A.
Catholic Theological Union
5401 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
(312) 324-8000
John K. Chance
Department of Anthropology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287–2402
(602) 965-6213
K.C. Hanson
Theology Department
Creighton University
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178–0116
(402) 280-2507
Gideon M. Kressel
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Beer Sheva
Israel
e-mail: kressel@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Victor H. Matthews
Religious Studies Department
Southwest Missouri State University
Springfield, MO 65804
(417) 836-5491
Jerome H. Neyrey
Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(219) 239-7469
Ronald Simkins
Theology Department
Creighton University
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178–0116
(402) 280-2504
Gary Stansell
Religion Department
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN 55057
(507) 646-3082
Note: The Editors thank Janet L. R. Melnyk for her work on this volume.
Social Sciences and Biblical Studies
Victor H. Matthews and Don C. Benjamin
Coincidence Launched Semeia: Honor and Shame in the World of the Bible at the annual meeting of the Society of Bible Literature in Kansas City, MO in 1991, where we were serving as temporary program chairs for the Social Sciences and the Interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures Section. The mission of the section is to provide biblical scholars working with the social sciences a forum to report on the progress of their work, with the goal of promoting interest in the use of the social sciences in biblical interpretation, and of recruiting scholars to participate in groups which have specific commitments to study and publish on a particular area of interest. In the Social Sciences and the Interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures Section, any biblical tradition or period may be studied, and topics typically vary from paper to paper. Nonetheless, in 1991 three presenters applied social scientific studies on honor and shame to the Bible in their papers, and created ...
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About Semeia 68: Honor and Shame in the World of the BibleSemeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted. |
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