03642nam 2200601Ia 450 991078234880332120230207225803.01-281-84152-897866118415220-567-44221-7(CKB)1000000000549739(EBL)436298(OCoLC)286937867(SSID)ssj0000237114(PQKBManifestationID)12044317(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237114(PQKBWorkID)10207785(PQKB)10310184(MiAaPQ)EBC436298(Au-PeEL)EBL436298(CaPaEBR)ebr10256278(CaONFJC)MIL184152(OCoLC)893334072(EXLCZ)99100000000054973920000322d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRethinking contexts, rereading texts[electronic resource] contributions from the social sciences to biblical interpretation /edited by M. Daniel Carroll RSheffield, England Sheffield Academic Pressc20001 online resource (281 p.)Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;299Description based upon print version of record.1-84127-058-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-262) and indexes.Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction: Issues of 'Context' within Social Science Approaches to Biblical Studies; PART I: THE POTENTIAL AND PITFALLS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE APPROACHES; The Potential of the Negative: Approaching the Old Testament through the Work of Adorno; Reading the Bible in the Context of Methodological Pluralism: The Undermining of Ethnic Exclusivism in Genesis; Gauging the Grain in a More Nuanced and Literary Manner: A Cautionary Tale concerning the Contribution of the Social Sciences to Biblical InterpretationPART II: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION: CASE STUDIESA Map of Ideology for Biblical Critics; Ezra 2 in Ideological Critical Perspective; 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; 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; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; UVW; Y; ZThis 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 themselves as social artifacts. In the first, predominantly theoretical, section of the book, John Rogerson applies the perspective of Adorno to the reading of biblical texts; Mark Brett advocates methodological pluralism and deconstructs ethnicity in Genesis; and Gerald West explores the 'graininess' of texThe Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament StudiesSociology, BiblicalSociology, Biblical.220.67Carroll R M. Daniel1495883MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782348803321Rethinking contexts, rereading texts3720261UNINA