Social description or social-scientific interpretation? A survey of modern scholarship

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title Social description or social-scientific interpretation? A survey of modern scholarship
 
Creator van Staden, P. van Aarde, A. G.
 
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Description Recent interest in the social aspects of the first-century Mediterranean world reflected in the texts of the New Testament has taken primarily two directions. The one approach concentrates on social description, and the oth er on social-scientific interp re tatio n . This article surveys the major works of several of the leading exponents of this type of study in terms of the extent to which they make use of the social sciences. It differs from existing surveys by having an in-depth look at the elements of social-scientific theory and method actually employed, and by making a comparative assessment of the importance allocated by different authors to the role of the text as a deliberate construction.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 1991-01-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
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Identifier 10.4102/hts.v47i1.2353
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 47, No 1 (1991); 55-87 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 1991 P. van Staden, A. G. van Aarde https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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