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Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes
- Patronage, Honor, and Shame in the Biblical World
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
The Bible was written within collectivist cultures. When Westerners, immersed in individualism, read the Bible, it's easy to misinterpret important elements - or miss them altogether. In any culture, the most important things usually go without being said. So to read Scripture well we benefit when we uncover the unspoken social structures and values of its world. We need to recalibrate our vision.
Combining the expertise of a biblical scholar and a missionary practitioner, Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes is an essential guidebook to the cultural background of the Bible and how it should inform our reading. E. Randolph Richards and Richard James explore deep social structures of the ancient Mediterranean - kinship, patronage, and brokerage - along with their key social tools - honor, shame, and boundaries - that the biblical authors lived in and lie below the surface of each text. From Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar to Peter's instructions to elders, the authors strip away individualist assumptions and bring the world of the biblical writers to life.
Expanding on the popular Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes, this book makes clear how understanding collectivism will help us better understand the Bible, which in turn will help us live more faithfully in an increasingly globalized world.
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- Carôle
- 15-10-21
Book 2 - Equally as Informative
Misreading Scripture With Western Eyes, is book one. Very informative and a great introduction. This book goes deeper and totally opens up your heart and mind to the fact that, whilst the Bible was written for us - it wasn’t written TO us as Westerners!! There are a whole swath of things written in the Bible that goes without saying - which actually DO need saying, to us!
Having read these 2 books, I realised that, there are So Many Things that just go over our heads, that our ministers don’t really have the time (in a sermon) each week, to educate us on! We really Do need to know and understand these things, in order to get ‘the point’ that Jesus, Peter, Paul and James were making our their audience - which wasn’t us!!
I’ve learned quite a deal from this first pass! Both books have to be revisited, but the beauty of this book is, how it further opened my eyes to the‘nuclear family, all about me’ isolationist culture that we have in the West which can, on reflection, be quite limiting and lonely and not what our Triune Godhead desires for us at all.
I never appreciated that before. These books are a great investment for our spiritual lives.
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- Angela White
- 03-01-23
excellent
some wonderful and thought-provoking contexts to culture and scripture. How interpretation can change the meaning.. Will be re reading as I know I have missed some gems.
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- E T-Watson
- 11-01-23
Interesting but repetitive
Worth reading especially as a Christian believer, as the insight into the collectivist society in which Christ operated is very helpful in interpreting his works and the writings of his followers by understanding the contemporary context.
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