Theology

Louise Joy Lawrence

An Ethnography of the Gospel of Matthew

A Critical Assessment of the Use of the Honour and Shame Model in New Testament Studies

[Eine Ethnographie des Matthäus-Evangeliums. Eine Revision der Verwendung des 'Ehre und Schande'-Modells in der Forschung zum Neuen Testament.]

unrevised e-book edition 2019; Original edition 2003; 2003. XIX, 392 pages.

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe 165

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Louise Lawrence provides a reading of Matthew's Gospel from an ethnographic perspective. By investigating various character interactions in the Gospel, the diversity inherent within cultural characteristics and values such as honour and shame are revealed.
Louise Lawrence provides a reading of Matthew's Gospel from an ethnographic perspective. Her book submits that the dynamic paradigm of ethnography constitutes an important modification of recent exegesis that seeks to take account of cultural anthropology. Building on Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas of culture as an open-ended dialogue between different individuals and voices (dialogism and heteroglossia), the author suggests that one should not take as 'given' that all worlds presented in the New Testament submit to a unitary Mediterranean social script as currently defined. She critically appraises the current Mediterranean script used in Biblical Studies in light of data collected from specific interactions with character informants in Matthew's world.
Authors/Editors

Louise Joy Lawrence Born 1975; 1996 BA in Theology from the University of Exeter; 1997 MA in Theology; 2002 PhD; currently Lecturer of New Testament Studies at Glasgow University, Scotland.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Religious Studies Review — 32 (2006), H. 2 (Zeba A. Crook)
In: New Testament Abstracts — Vol.48 (2004), H.2, S.418
In: Etudes Théologiques et Réligieuses — 2006, S. 557–559 (C. Paya)
In: Biblical Theology Bulletin — 36 (2006), S. 189–190 (Barbara Green)