NT201 – The Cultural World of the New Testament

Title Page

• Syllabus
• Introduction

Unit 1: Honor and Shame

• S1 – Introduction to Culture
• S2 – Honor, Shame, and Social Control
• S3 – Honor and Shame in Complex Cultures
• S4 – Competing for Honor
• Unit 1 Quiz

Unit 2: Honor and Shame: 1 Peter

• S5 – The Experience of Shame
• S6 – Consider the Source
• S7 – Who’s on Trial Here?
• S8 – Reinterpreting Experiences of Shame (Part 1)
• S9 – Reinterpreting Experiences of Shame (Part 2)
• S10 – Defending Your Honor
• S11 – Using a Historical Background Collection
• S12 – Honored in God’s Sight
• S13 – The Social Matrix of Perseverance
• S14 – Embodying 1 Peter
• Unit 2 Quiz

Unit 3: Patronage and Reciprocity

• S15 – Patrons, Clients, and Brokers
• S16 – The Social Context of Grace
• S17 – Running a Louw-Nida Search on Charis
• S18 – Graceful Giving
• S19 – Graceful Receiving and Expression of Gratitude
• S20 – An Example from the Life of Jesus
• Unit 3 Quiz

Unit 4: Patronage and Reciprocity: Hebrews

• S21 – God as Patron
• S22 – Jesus as Patron and Mediator
• S23 – The Letter to the Hebrews and Its Audience
• S24 – Summons to Grateful Response
• S25 – Warnings against Ingratitude (Part 1)
• S26 – Warnings against Ingratitude (Part 2)
• S27 – Cultural Awareness and Solving Theological Problems
• Unit 4 Quiz

• Midterm Exam

Unit 5: Family and Household

• S28 – Establishing Kinship
• S29 – Kinship Ethics
• S30 – The Household of the Classical World
• S31 – Women in the Household
• S32 – Studying Sirach on the Silent Wife
• S33 – Children
• S34 – Analyzing Parentage and Honor (John 8:31–41)
• S35 – Slaves
• S36 – Reconfiguring Kinship
• S37 – Searching for the Cultural Concept of Kinship

Unit 6: Family and Household: 1 Peter

• S38 – New Birth into a New Family
• S39 – Ethical Implications of the New Birth
• S40 – Advice for Christians in Natural Households: Wives
• S41 – Advice for Christians in Natural Households: Husbands
• S42 – Advice for Christians in Natural Households: Slaves
• Unit 5–6 Quiz

Unit 7: Purity and Pollution

• S43 – Basic Concepts
• S44 – Clean, Unclean, Common, and Holy
• S45 – Early Judaism’s Purity Maps (Part 1)
• S46 – Investigating Herod’s Temple
• S47 – Early Judaism’s Purity Maps (Part 2)
• S48 – What Makes Purity Codes Meaningful?
• S49 – Levels of Concern for Purity

Unit 8: Purity and Pollution: Hebrews

• S50 – Purity Regulations in a Pauline Church
• S51 – Purity and New Group Boundaries
• S52 – Rewriting Maps of Sacred Space and Personnel
• S53 – Jesus’ Death as Consecration
• S54 – Reexamining Purity Lines Today
• S55 – Building a Sermon on Defilement (Mark 7:20–23)
• Unit 7–8 Quiz

Conclusion

• S56 – Authentic Hearing, Authentic Following

• Final Exam