Rethinking Contexts, Rereading Texts: Contributions From the Social Sciences to Biblical Interpretation
M. Daniel Carroll R.
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000 - 273 pages
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 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 texts. The second
part contains both theory and application: Jonathan Dyck draws a 'map of
ideology' for biblical critics and then applies an ideological critical
analysis to Ezra 2. M. Daniel Carroll R. reexamines 'popular religion'
and uses Amos as a test case; Stanley Porter considers dialect and
register in the Greek of the New Testament, then applies it to Mark's
Gospel. This is an original as well as wide-ranging exploration of
important social-scientific issues and their application to a range of
biblical materials.
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