Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible
Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible

Author: John Pilch

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9004496971

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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.

Christian Origins and Cultural Anthropology
Christian Origins and Cultural Anthropology

Author: Bruce Malina

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1725229048

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Bruce Malina provides the foundation for in-depth biblical interpretation using the tools of cultural analysis. As one of the pioneers in this field of biblical studies, Malina has taken the work of sociologist Mary Douglas, interpreted her "Group/Grid" model of cultural analysis, and applied it admirably to biblical studies and interpretation. He refines a new methodology of scholarly biblical interpretation. Since cultures differ, proper interpretation of one culture by another requires a method to compare and contrast the cultures. He has designed such methods and models using the principles of the Douglas method of sociological study. Malina's charts, models, and illustrations serve as study tools for other biblical scholars. His careful thorough work will enable these scholars to incorporate these new models for study into their own methods of biblical interpretation.

A Cultural Handbook to the Bible
A Cultural Handbook to the Bible

Author: John J. Pilch

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2012-09-21

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0802867200

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Analyzes sixty-three subjects from the Bible from a cross-cultural perspective.

Pillars in the History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 2
Pillars in the History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 2

Author: Stanley E. Porter

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-11-03

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 1498292917

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This two-volume set is part of a growing body of literature concerned with the history of biblical interpretation. The ample introduction first situates key players in the story of the development of the major strands of biblical interpretation since the Enlightenment, identifying how different theoretical and methodological approaches are related to each other and describing the academic environment in which they emerged and developed. Volume 1 contains fourteen essays on twenty-two interpreters who were principally active before 1980, and volume 2 has nineteen essays on twenty-seven of those who were active primarily after this date. Each chapter provides a brief biography of one or more scholars, as well as a detailed description of their major contributions to the field. This is followed by an (often new) application of the scholar's theory. By focusing on the individual scholars and their work, the book recognizes that interpretive approaches arise out of certain circumstances, and that scholars are influenced by, and have influences upon, both other interpreters and the times in which they live. This set is ideal for any class on the history of biblical interpretation and for those who want a greater understanding of how the current field of biblical studies developed.

Pillars in the History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 3
Pillars in the History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 3

Author: Stanley E. Porter

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-06-07

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 1725287048

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This third volume, like its predecessors, adds to the growing body of literature concerned with the history of biblical interpretation. With eighteen essays on nineteen biblical interpreters, volume 3 expands the scope of scholars, both traditional and modern, covered in this now multivolume series. Each chapter provides a biographical sketch of its respective scholar(s), an overview of their major contributions to the field, explanations of their theoretical and methodological approaches to interpretation, and evaluations and applications of their methods. By focusing on the contexts in which these scholars lived and worked, these essays show what defining features qualify these scholars as “pillars” in the history of biblical interpretation. While identifying a scholar as a “pillar” is somewhat subjective, this volume defines a pillar as one who has made a distinctive contribution by using and exemplifying a clear method that has pushed the discipline forward, at least within a given context and time period. This volume is ideal for any class on the history of biblical interpretation and for those who want a greater understanding of how the field of biblical studies has developed and how certain interpreters have played a formative role in that development.

What is Social-scientific Criticism?
What is Social-scientific Criticism?

Author: John Hall Elliott

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780800626785

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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.

Urgency and Severity: Pauline Rationale for Expulsion in 1 Corinthians 5:1-13
Urgency and Severity: Pauline Rationale for Expulsion in 1 Corinthians 5:1-13

Author: David E. Bosworth

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-05-21

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9004693130

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When Paul heard that a Christ-follower in Corinth was in an incestuous relationship with his stepmother, the apostle insisted the man be removed immediately from the congregation. This dramatic response is surprising, as Paul responds to other serious situations with much less vehemence. Why did Paul react to the immoral man with such urgency and severity? Using socio-cultural tools, this study explains the importance of group identity and witness for Paul’s ecclesiology. The argument lays a foundation for contemporary readers to appraise contexts where an expulsive response to sin might be appropriate.

Scripture as Social Discourse
Scripture as Social Discourse

Author: Todd Klutz

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-06-14

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0567684997

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Throughout the last several decades professional biblical scholars have adapted concepts and theories from the social sciences – particularly social and cultural anthropology – in order to cast new light on ancient biblical writings, early Jewish and Christian texts that circulated with the Scriptures, and the various contexts in which these literatures were produced and first received. The present volume of essays draws much of its inspiration from that same development in the history of biblical research, while also offering insights from other, newer approaches to interpretation. The contributors to this volume explore a wide range of broadly social-scientific disciplines and discourses – cultural anthropology, sociology, archaeology, political science, the New Historicism, forced migration studies, gender studies – and provide multiple examples of the ways in which these diverse methods and theories can shed new and often fascinating light on the ancient texts. The fruit of scholarly work that is both international in flavour and truly collaborative, this volume provides fresh perspectives not only on familiar portions of Jewish and Christian Scripture but also on select passages from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi library and previously untranslated French texts.