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20 - Social Sciences, Social History, and Ideology

from Part III - Methods and Modes of Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2021

Patrick Gray
Affiliation:
Rhodes College, Memphis
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This chapter discusses a range of approaches to the New Testament that have emerged in recent decades, often in explicit reaction to historical-critical methods, under the rubric of social history and ideology.

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Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Boer, Roland, and Økland, Jorunn, eds. Marxist Feminist Criticism of the Bible. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Crook, Zeba A.Structure versus Agency in Studies of the Biblical Social World: Engaging with Louise Lawrence.” JSNT 29 (2007): 251–75Google Scholar
Crossley, James G. Jesus in an Age of Terror: Projects for a New American Century. London: Equinox, 2008.Google Scholar
Friesen, Steven J.Poverty in Pauline Studies: Beyond the So-Called New Consensus.” JSNT 26 (2004): 323–61Google Scholar
Horrell, David G. “Social-Scientific Interpretation of the New Testament: Retrospect and Prospect.” Pages 327 in Social-Scientific Approaches to New Testament Interpretation. Edited by Horrell, David G.. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1999.Google Scholar
Lawrence, Louise J.Structure, Agency and Ideology: A Response to Zeba Crook.” JSNT 29 (2007): 277–86.Google Scholar
Osiek, Carolyn, and MacDonald, Margaret Y. with Tulloch, Janet H., A Woman’s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006.Google Scholar
Schottroff, Luise. “‘Not Many Powerful’: Approaches to a Sociology of Early Christianity.” Pages 277–86 in Social-Scientific Approaches to New Testament Interpretation. Edited by Horrell, David G.. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1999.Google Scholar
Sugirtharajah, R.S. Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: History, Method, Practice. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Theissen, Gerd. Social Reality and the Early Christians: Theology, Ethics, and the World of the New Testament. Translated by M. Kohl. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1993.Google Scholar

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