This month, from Doug Jones:
To modern ears, so many New Testament arguments seem abstract, strange, and disconnected. This book provides their home. DeSilva examines the dominant contexts of honor/shame, patronage/reciprocity, kinship/household, and purity/pollution, themes that shape so much of the New Testament. For years, anthropologists and New Testament scholars have written about these crucial topics in difficult prose scattered all over the academic landscape, but deSilva gathers these topics in one, clear, popular, delightful place. Read it before you try to understand any more of the New Testament. The lights will come on.

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