"He Shall Not Be Put to Shame": Honor-and-Shame Culture as the Overlooked Context of Psalm 127.
When interpreting Ps 127, scholars have sometimes overlooked the context of the cultural values that structure society. The use of the language of shame in verse 5cd, however, calls for an investigation of this psalm from the perspective of honor-and-shame culture in ancient Mediterranean societies....
| Publicado en: | Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 145; no. 2; pp. 221 - 238 |
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