JETS 22:2 (June 1979) p. 131 Easterner’s sense of shame. Even though a man calls in the middle of the night it would be unthinkable for the man inside not to respond to the need of his friend to provide a meal for a traveler even if it means getting up at midnight, unbolting the door and awaking his children. He will indeed get up, and he will do it quickly. He will get up to “avoid the shame” of himself and his village. The key to the meaning of the parable is in the word anaideia, which in the