Social-Scientific Old Testament Criticism
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Featuring some of the best essays from the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Each of the volume’s six sections (including “Theory and Methodology,” “Sociology of Knowledge,” “Early Israel in Sociological and Anthropological Perspective,” “The Regulation of Social Life: Law, Ethics and Deviance,” “Stratification, Power and Social Justice,” and “Social Groupings and Social Roles”) feature scholarly elaborations on significant issues within the field of social-scientific Old Testament Criticism. Contributors include James W. Flanagan (“Chiefs in Israel”), Lyn M. Bechtel (“Shame as a Sanction of Social Control in Biblical Israel: Judicial, Political, and Social Shaming”).
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- Title: Social-Scientific Old Testament Criticism
- Author: David Chalcraft
- Series: Sheffield Reader Collection
- Volume: 47
- Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
- Print Publication Date: 1997
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Pages: 395
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Jews › Civilization--To 70 A.D; Jews › History--To 70 A.D; Jews › Social conditions; Jews › Social life and customs--To 70 A.D
- ISBNs: 9781850758136, 1850758131
- Resource ID: LLS:SOCSCIOTCRITC
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-03-12T21:15:00Z