This 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.
| ISBN: | 9781841272689 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 2002 |
| Author: | Johanna (University of Leeds, UK) Stiebert |
| Publisher: | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 210 pages |
| Series: | The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
| Genres: |
Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts Christianity Old Testaments New Testaments Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Psychology |