David Daniel Mcateer

Rethinking Contexts, Rereading Texts: Contributions from the Social Sciences to Biblical Interpretation - The Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies David Daniel Mcateer

Brief Description: 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. Biographical Note: M. Daniel Carroll R. is Professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary and Adjunct Professor of Old Testament at El Seminario Teologico Centroamericano in Guatemala City. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-262) and indexes.

Contributor Bio:  Carroll, Rachel M. Daniel Carroll R. is Professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary and Adjunct Professor of Old Testament at El Seminario Teologico Centroamericano in Guatemala City. Contributor Bio:  Carroll R, M Daniel M. Daniel Carroll R. (PhD, University of Sheffield) is distinguished professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colorado, where he founded IDEAL, a Spanish language training program. He is also an adjunct professor at El Seminario Teologico Centroamericano in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is the author or editor of several books, including "Amos--The Prophet and His Oracles: Research on the Book of Amos" and "Theory and Practice in Old Testament Ethics", and is a contributing editor to "Prism". Contributor Bio:  Carroll R, Mark Daniel M. Daniel Carroll R. is Professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary and Adjunct Professor of Old Testament at El Seminario Teologico Centroamericano in Guatemala City.