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Want even more arcana to stump the critics? ;-) Here's one that will send them spinning for the anachronism heap. It has a lot of the same material you will find in Malina's other book Portraits of Paul and is not as comprehensive on points as deSilva's Honor, Patronage, Kinship and Purity, but you will still find it useful if you are into knowing the world of the Bible as the people there knew it. I got a lot of rich material from this book, and for the price it packs a punch!

Pilch and Malina provide entries for a variety of ancient values (activeness/passiveness, altruism, clothing, faithfulness, etc.) explaining how they were expressed. With the lay reader in mind, they then compare the ancient expression of these values to the modern American expression of the same values. The comparison effort makes the book extremely effective! We highly recommend this book for apologetics students and suggest that it may be useful for honest inquirers as well.