The Construction of Shame in the Hebrew Bible: The Prophetic ContributionThis book explores the phenomenon of shame in the Hebrew bible. It focuses particularly on the major prophets, because shame vocabulary is most prominent there. Shame has been widely discussed in the literature of psychology and anthropology; the book discusses the findings of both disciplines in some detail. It emphasises the social-anthropological honour/shame model, which a considerable number of biblical scholars since the early 1990s have embraced enthusiastically. The author highlights the shortcomings of this heuristic model and proposes a number of alternative critical approaches. |
Contents
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Chapter 1 SHAME AND BIBLICAL LITERATURE | 25 |
Chapter 2 SHAME AND ISAIAH | 87 |
Chapter 3 SHAME AND JEREMIAH | 110 |
Chapter 4 SHAME AND EZEKIEL | 129 |
Conclusion | 165 |
Bibliography | 174 |
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The Construction of Shame in the Hebrew Bible: The Prophetic Contribution Johanna Stiebert No preview available - 2002 |
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Page 13 - Yet he may perceive, usually quite correctly, that whatever others profess, they do not really "accept" him and are not ready to make contact with him on "equal grounds." " Further, the standards he has incorporated from the wider society equip him to be intimately alive to what others see as his failing, inevitably causing him, if only for moments, to agree that he does indeed fall short of what he really ought to be. Shame becomes a central possibility, arising from the individual's perception...
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