Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: Shame: Definition and Characteristics; Shame and Psychology; Shame and Emotion; Shame and Guilt; Aside: Scheler on Women and Inherent Shame; Shame and Social Sciences: Shame and Guilt Cultures. Honour and Shame: Summary CHAPTER ONE: Shame and Biblical Literature: Background: Honour and Shame in the Apocrypha and New Testament: A Summary and General Comments; Honour and Shame in the Hebrew Bible; A Summary and General Comments; Early 'Cultural Studies; Pedersen and Daube; The Major Hebrew Bible Shame Studies: Klopfenstein and Bechtel Huber; Honour, Shame and Hebrew Bible Narratives; Criticism of the Honour/Shame Model in Hebrew Bible Studies: Honour, Shame and Prophecy; Summary CHAPTER II: SHAME AND ISAIAH: The Book of Isaiah and the Deficiencies of the Honour/Shame Model: Excursus: Shame and the Role of Yhwh; Women, Shame and Referred Metaphor in Isaiah: Shame, Wealth and Idolatry; Summary CHAPTER III: SHAME AND JEREMIAH: Ideological Criticism; Shame Language and Its Implications: Sexual Metaphor; Shame and Anti-foreign Ideology; Shame and Wordplay; Summary CHAPTER IV: SHAME AND EZEKIEL: Impurity and Shame; Woman Jerusalem in Ezekiel; The Psychological Approach; Feminist Approaches: Ezekiel 16, Shame and Antilanguage; Summary; Excursus: Shame and the Psalter; CONCLUSIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY
