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.
- ISBN10 056707868X
- ISBN13 9780567078681
- Publish Date 1 June 2002 (first published 1 May 1992)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Sheffield Academic Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 210
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/