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Dealing With Biblical (Mediterranean) Characters: a Guide for U.S. Consumers

An alternative scenario for imagining the Mediterranean characters who appear in the Bible stands in contrast to U.S. understandings of persons as psychological individuals in a social world in which economic relationships are primary. Biblical characters should be seen in terms of Mediterranean patterns where familism and gender-based identity make kinship the primary social institution. U.S. readers need to be alerted to patterns in Mediterranean communication, which expect males to show emotion freely, which produces texts such as the Bible where authors are more intent on showing how they felt about what was going on than on simply telling in a post-Enlightenment fashion "what was really going on."