Rethinking Contexts, Rereading Texts

David Daniel McAteer (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 184127058X / ISBN 13: 9781841270586

Published by Bloomsbury 3PL, 2000

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Rethinking Contexts, Rereading Texts | David Daniel McAteer (u. a.) | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2000 | Bloomsbury 3PL | EAN 9781841270586 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Contexts, Rereading Texts
• Publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184127058X
• ISBN 13: 9781841270586
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 222W x 145H x 20D millimeters 222 millimeters width by 145 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 532 grams
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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Andrew Mein is Director of Research at the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, UK

Claudia V. Camp is Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, USA and was on the steering committee of the Seminar. She is currently co-general editor of the LHBOTS series, as well as the author or editor of 4 books and numerous articles.