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The family is a primary seat of group honour. Affronts to the honour of one member are affronts to the honour of all. Females are embedded in dominant males, either father, husband or brother, and must be constantly watched lest they do anything which might dishonour the family. READING THE MEDITERRANEAN SOCIAL SCRIPT 31 After all, a man who seduces a woman wins honour for himself and brings dishonour on her male relatives. If a sister or daughter willingly loses her virginity, (her ‘shame’), both she and her lover might be killed so as to repair the profound dishonour such an act brings on the family.
These were pyramids of men and boys organised in teams wearing distinctive READING THE MEDITERRANEAN SOCIAL SCRIPT 29 colours who stood on one another’s shoulders until the whole edifice had reached a dizzying height. Castells are local cultural events and the teams engage in competition to see who can achieve the greatest elevation. They nicely illustrate a feature of Mediterranean social life having far wider connotations. The emphasis on honour in this culture is related to the manner in which personality is perceived.
The glossolalia described by Paul as present in the Corinthian community is, therefore, similar to that among the contemporary congregations considered above in being ‘lexically non-communicative’. The widespread fiction that the phenomenon is explicable as speech in human languages unknown to the speaker is entirely absent from Paul’s account. Paul’s presentation of glossolalia as unintelligible utterance rather than xenoglossy vouches for his dispassionate accuracy on this topic and lays the foundation for establishing the comparability of the Corinthian position with the findings from modern research.
