An Appeal to Personality in Hebrews: A Social-Scientific Study
Understanding the people we meet in the Letter to the Hebrews (hereafter: Hebrews) with Western concepts of personality is misleading. This is because people in today's Western society are different from those who lived in Mediterranean societies during the first-century. This article uses pers...
| Published in: | Neotestamentica |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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NTWSA
[2017]
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| In: |
Neotestamentica
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hebrews
/ Israelites
/ Mediterranean area
/ Personality
/ Human image
/ Anthropology
/ Antiquity
/ History
/ Collective
/ Group
/ Sociology
B History 1-100 |
| RelBib Classification: | HC New Testament NBE Anthropology ZB Sociology |
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| Summary: | Understanding the people we meet in the Letter to the Hebrews (hereafter: Hebrews) with Western concepts of personality is misleading. This is because people in today's Western society are different from those who lived in Mediterranean societies during the first-century. This article uses personality as a social-scientific model to study Hebrews. It will be shown that first-century Mediterranean concepts of personality allow for a full appreciation of the author's rhetoric and appeal to the audience. After discussing social-scientific criticism and some models of first-century personality, the relevant aspects of the theories on personality are used as a lens through which to consider Hebrews' appeal to its readers. The study concludes that Hebrews portrays its readers as typical collectivist persons with a group orientation, who are concerned primarily with the pursuit of goals and interests related to the group. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/neo.2017.0016 |