The social world of the New Testament
The Context Group has made a significant impact on biblical studies through social-scientific criticism, making us aware that the bible and related texts were products of their own world, subject to different social dynamics, values and institutions that also helped to shape their message. This is c...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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NTWSA
2010
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2010, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 191-196 |
| Review of: | The social world of the New Testament (Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, 2008) (Cromhout, Markus)
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| Summary: | The Context Group has made a significant impact on biblical studies through social-scientific criticism, making us aware that the bible and related texts were products of their own world, subject to different social dynamics, values and institutions that also helped to shape their message. This is critically important if we want to avoid anachronism and ethnocentrism and recover the original meaning of the texts. This volume, edited by Jerome H. Neyrey and Eric C. Stewart, represents but a sample of the Context Group's work that has developed, from what was once viewed as new and arbitrary, to what is absolutely necessary, indeed, to what should carry priority in biblical interpretation (and translation!). All the chapters in this volume have been subject to peer review on two previous occasions (as papers and when published in journals/chapters in books) and now we have the benefit of having them collected in this volume. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC83356 |