Scripture as Social Discourse: Social Scientific Perspectives on Early Jewish and Christian Writings
- Submitting institution
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- Keady2
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- T&T Clark
- ISBN
- 9780567676047
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- All chapters in the volume are, in various ways, the product of a biblical studies colloquium held in Manchester and Sheffield on 24–25 April 2014 and include contributions by specialists in biblical studies and related areas at the Universities of Manchester, Sheffield, Lausanne and Geneva. The theme of that year’s colloquium was based on social scientific readings of a range of early Jewish and Christian writings and materials. Throughout the last several decades professional biblical scholars have adapted concepts and theories from the social sciences – particularly social and cultural anthropology – to cast new light on ancient biblical writings, early Jewish and Christian texts that circulated with the Scriptures, and the various contexts in which these literatures were produced and first received. The editorial work was equally divided amongst the three editors: namely the recruitment of authors and maintaining contact with them; initial comments on chapters; indexes; and each editor also had their own chapter in the edited collection too. The wide range of essays within this edited volume draw much of its inspiration from that same development in the history of biblical research, while also offering insights from other, newer approaches to interpretation. The contributors to this volume explore a wide range of broadly social-scientific disciplines and discourses – cultural anthropology, sociology, archaeology, political science, the New Historicism, forced migration studies, gender studies – and provide multiple examples of the ways in which these diverse methods and theories can shed new and often fascinating light on the ancient texts. Keady had a chapter within the edited volume that reviewed masculinity studies in the War Scroll. This edited collection is both international and truly collaborative, and provides fresh perspectives on biblical material, select passages from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi library and previously untranslated French texts.
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- Non-English
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