Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible PDF full book. Access full book title Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible by John Pilch. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: John Pilch Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004496971 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 448
Book Description
Fourteen members of The Context Group honor Bruce J. Malina and his scholarship in this volume by following his consistent example of developing or using explicit social scientific models to interpret documents from the ancient Mediterranean world. Ordinary features of that cultural world such as gossip, reciprocity, a pervasive military presence, the power of women, and becoming a follower of Jesus stand out with greater clarity in the Bible when a reader understands the cultural matrix in which such social dynamics function. These essays reflect The Context Group’s more than twenty years of collaborative experience in researching the cultural context of the Bible. New insights are built on the solidly established foundations of their earlier cross-cultural studies. Readers will find the individual essays enlightening and challenging. Taken as a whole they form a valuable resource and a stimulating and helpful aid to further study.
Author: John Pilch Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004496971 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 448
Book Description
Fourteen members of The Context Group honor Bruce J. Malina and his scholarship in this volume by following his consistent example of developing or using explicit social scientific models to interpret documents from the ancient Mediterranean world. Ordinary features of that cultural world such as gossip, reciprocity, a pervasive military presence, the power of women, and becoming a follower of Jesus stand out with greater clarity in the Bible when a reader understands the cultural matrix in which such social dynamics function. These essays reflect The Context Group’s more than twenty years of collaborative experience in researching the cultural context of the Bible. New insights are built on the solidly established foundations of their earlier cross-cultural studies. Readers will find the individual essays enlightening and challenging. Taken as a whole they form a valuable resource and a stimulating and helpful aid to further study.
Author: Wolfgang Stegemann Publisher: Fortress Press ISBN: 9781451420432 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 432
Book Description
Contributions by internationally known scholars from the United States, Germany, Scotland, Spain, and Canada move beyond many of the impasses in historical Jesus research. Includes essays using social sciences, social history, and traditional historical methods.
Author: Philip Francis Esler Publisher: Fortress Press ISBN: 9780800637675 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 452
Book Description
This volume brings together essays by an international group of biblical scholars on Old Testament topics, employing social-scientific methods: anthropology, macro-sociology, social psychology, and so forth.
Author: Dietmar Neufeld Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit ISBN: 1589833473 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 201
Book Description
The Bible is an ancient book, written in a language other than English, describing social and cultural situations incongruent with modern sensibilities. To help readers bridge these gaps, this work examines the translation and interpretation of a set of biblical texts from the perspectives of cultural anthropology and the social sciences. The introduction deals with methodological issues, enabling readers to recognize the differences in translation when words, sentences, and ideas are part of ancient social and cultural systems that shape meaning. The following essays demonstrate how Bible translations can be culturally sensitive, take into account the challenge of social distance, and avoid the dangers of ethnocentric and theological myopia. As a whole, this work shows the importance of making use of the insights of cultural anthropology in an age of ever-increasing manipulation of the biblical text. --From publisher's description.
Author: John Hall Elliott Publisher: Fortress Press ISBN: 9780800626785 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
This book gives a clearly written, authoritative introduction to social-scientific criticism of the New Testament, including the rise of this method, its practitioners and the focal points of their work, how the method is applied to the interpretation of the biblical text, and the presuppositions and procedures of the method. Four appendices; glossary; two bibliographies.
Author: David G. Horrell Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 9780567086587 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 438
Book Description
In the past twenty-five years, New Testament scholars have drawn on the social sciences, especially anthropology and sociology, to develop a variety of new perspectives on early Christianity. David Horrell here gathers together the classic works in this field, including essays by, for example, John Barclay, Philip Esler, Wayne Meeks, Luise Schottroff and Gerd Theissen. For each selection, David Horrell provides a short introduction and suggestions for further reading. He also provides an introduction outlining the development and future prospects of the discipline.An excellent reference and textbook for scholars and students.
Author: Russell Arnold Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047409159 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 278
Book Description
"This volume investigates the layers of meaning of the Qumran community's liturgical practice as prayer (communication with the divine), ritual (actions that establish and reinforce the social and ideological structures of the community), and speech (containing both verbal and non-verbal communication)."--Jacket.
Author: James D. Dvorak Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1498224598 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 205
Book Description
The Epistle of James is a collection of essays that applies to the book of James linguistic methods of analysis that are based on the same theoretical framework, namely Systemic-Functional Linguistics. This volume is unique in that it provides a theoretically consistent and unified approach to a single New Testament book, which makes the whole volume useful for researchers and students of James. Each essay makes its own creative use of this linguistic perspective to engage important critical questions and to pave new ground for Jacobean scholarship based on linguistic analysis. Various topics in this volume include the textual structure and cohesion of the letter, intertextuality, rhetorical strategies, ideological struggle, interpersonal relations, and other topics related to the letter's social context and language use.
Author: John Pilch
Author: John Pilch
Author: John J. Pilch
Author: John J. Pilch
Author: Wolfgang Stegemann
Author: Philip Francis Esler
Author: Dietmar Neufeld
Author: John Hall Elliott
Author: David G. Horrell
Author: Russell Arnold
Author: James D. Dvorak