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Bergant, Dianne. “‘My Beloved is Mine and I am His’ (Song 2:16): The Song of Songs and Honor and Shame.” Semeia 68 (1994): 23-40.
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Chance, John K. “The Anthropology of Honor and Shame: Culture, Values, and Practice.” Semeia 68 (1994): 139-51.
Danker, Frederick W. Benefactor: Epigraphic Study of a Graeco-Roman and New Testament Semantic Field. St. Louis, Mo.: Clayton Publishing House, 1982.
deSilva, David A. “Despising Shame: A Cultural-Anthropological Investigation of the Epistle to the Hebrews.” Journal of Biblical Literature 113, no. 3 (1994): 439-61.
________. Honor, Patronage, Kinship & Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2000.
________. The Hope of Glory: Honor Discourse and New Testament Interpretation. Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgical Press, 1999.
Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Ark Paperbacks, 1984.
Duling, Dennis. “Matthew’s Plurisignificant ‘Son of David’ in Social-Science Perspective: Kinship, Kingship, Magic and Miracle.” Biblical Theology Bulletin 22 (1992): 99-116.
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Geyer, Douglas. Fear, Anomaly and Uncertainty in the Gospel of Mark. ATLA Monograph Series. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2001.
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Hall, Edward T. Beyond Culture. Garden City, N. Y.: Anchor Press, 1976.
Hanson, K. C. “How Honorable! How Shameful! A Cultural Analysis of Matthew’s Makarisms and Reproaches.” Semeia 68 (1994): 82-111.
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Lawrence, Louise J. “‘For truly I tell you, they have received their reward’(Matt. 6:2): Investigating Honor Precedence and Honor Virtue.” The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 64 (2002): 687-702.
________. “‘Men of Perfect Holiness’ (1QS 7.20): Social-Scientific Thoughts on Group Identity, Asceticism and Ethical Development in the Rule of the Community. In New Directions in Qumran Studies, ed. Jonathan G. Campbell, William John Lyons, and Lloyd K. Pietersen. London: T & T Clark International, 2005.
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Malina, Bruce J., and Richard L. Rohrbaugh. Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels, 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003.
May, David M. “Mark 3:20-35 from the Perspective of Shame/Honor.” Biblical Theology Bulletin 17 (1987): 83-7.
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Moxnes, Halvor, ed. Constructing Early Christian Families: Family as Social Reality and Metaphor. London: Routledge, 1997.
Neyrey, Jerome H. “Despising the Shame of the Cross: Honor and Shame in the Johannine Passion Narrative.” Semeia 68 (1994): 113-37.
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Neyrey, Jerome H., ed. The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1991.
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Theissen, Gerd. The Gospels in Context: Social and Political History in the Synoptic Tradition. Trans. Linda M. Maloney. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.
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