” The aim of these articles was to show how insights from Middle Eastern culture drawn from the social sciences (Cultural Anthropology, Middle Eastern Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and others) helped to situate the Bible in its proper cultural context. For example, the “salt” statements of Jesus recorded in the Gospels (Matt 5:13; Mark 9:49-50; Luke 12:49; 14:34-35) have nothing to do with seasoning or preserving foods. Rather, they reflect the use of salt in the Middle East to facilitate the burning of the common fuel — camel and donkey dung — in the ovens. The articles that appeared from 1993 to 1997 were published in The Cultural Dictionary of the Bible (Liturgical Press, 1999). In 2000 this book won an award from the Catholic Press Association and was subsequently translated into Italian (Il Sapore della Parola, Áncora, 2001) and Polish (Słownik Kultury Biblijnej, Edycja św. Pawła, 2004).
Ancient Cultures, History, Theology
A Cultural Handbook to the Bible by Pilch, John J
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interpretations of that Middle Eastern document known as the Bible.
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