Biblical Criticism: A Guide for the Perplexed - Softcover

Davies, Eryl W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567145948 ISBN 13: 9780567145949

Publisher: T&T Clark, 2013

Synopsis

This Guide for the Perplexed will demonstrate how modern biblical scholars have expressed dissatisfaction with a one-sided historical-critical approach to biblical texts and have argued that developments in secular literary theory should be applied in biblical studies. Whereas the historical-critical approach was concerned with the moment of a text's production (authorship, date, place of writing etc), the literary approach is concerned with the moment of the text's reception. Eryl W. Davies shows how and why approaches such as ‘reader-response criticism', ‘feminist criticism', ‘ideological criticism', ‘canonical criticism' and ‘post-colonial criticism' are now becoming more popular in many quarters. The volume explains to the uninitiated in a readable and accessible form how strategies originally derived from secular literary criticism have been adopted by biblical scholars in order to understand the text of Scripture and to appreciate its relevance.

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About the Author

Dr Eryl W Davies is a Reader in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at Bangor University. His previous publications include Prophecy and Ethics: Isaiah and the Ethical Traditions of Israel (1981); a commentary on Numbers in the New Century Bible Commentary Series, and The Dissenting Reader: Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible (2003)

Edition details

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567145948
• ISBN 13: 9780567145949
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176