The Construction of Shame in the Hebrew Bible: The Prophetic Contribution

Overview

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 emphasizes the social-anthropological honor/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.

In the Logos edition, all Scripture passages in The Construction of Shame in the Hebrew Bible are tagged and appear on mouseover, and all Scripture passages link to your favorite Bible translation in your library. With Logos’ advanced features, you can perform powerful searches by topic or Scripture reference—finding, for example, every mention of “shame” or “impurity.”