Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Bible study and cultural anthropology: Interpreting texts fairly -- The presuppositions behind this book -- Nature, culture, person -- Understanding culture -- The bigger picture--cultural clues -- Why the bigger picture? humans as model-makers -- Models in cultural anthropology -- Summary -- References and suggested readings -- Honor and shame: pivotal values of the first century Mediterranean world -- Understanding honor -- How does a person get a grant of honor -- How honor is acquired -- Honor symboled by blood -- Honor symboled by name -- How honor is displayed and recognized -- Honor and the interpretation of a challenge -- Honor and going to court -- Dimensions of collective honor -- Honor and the moral division of labor: the double standard -- Toward defining honor and shame -- A significant clarification -- Summary -- Contrasting childrearing approaches -- Testing the hypothesis -- References and suggested readings -- The first century personality: the individual and the group -- The first-century personality -- Group orientated personality -- The make-up of human beings and God --

"This newly revised edition of The New Testament World improves on this already outstanding volume by adding inclusive language, by providing examples that are familiar to today's students, and by including an imporved bibliography of introductory works. In the preface, charts of comparision between U.S. and Mediterranean persons are included. Malina mantains his primary purpose--to help Bible readers understand and intepret the Bible in its cultural context" -- page 4 of cover.