Rethinking contexts, rereading texts : contributions from the social sciences to biblical interpretation /
This volume brings together ten essays on the various contexts for texts that social-scientific approaches invoke. These contexts are: the cultural values that inform the writers of texts, the relationship between the text and the reader or community of readers, and the production of texts themselve...
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| Series: | Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : issues of "context" within social science approaches to biblical studies / M. Daniel Carroll R.
- The potential of the negative : approaching the Old Testament through the work of Adorno / John W. Rogerson
- Reading the Bible in the context of methodological pluralism : the undermining of ethnic exclusivism in Genesis / Mark G. Brett
- Gauging the grain in a more nuanced and literary manner : a cautionary tale concerning the contribution of the social sciences to biblical interpretation / Gerald O. West
- A map of ideology for Biblical critics ; Ezra 2 in ideological critical perspective / Jonathan E. Dyck
- Re-examining "popular religion" : issues of definition and sources. Insights from interpretive anthropology ; "For so you love to do" : probing popular religion in the Book of Amos / M. Daniel Carroll R.
- Dialect and register in the Greek of the New Testament : theory ; Register in the Greek of the New Testament : application with reference to Mark's Gospel / Stanley E. Porter.
