biblical criticisim

Bible Criticism


Sept 17, 2003

Social Scientific

Some scholars are content to define them selves as social historians, traditional historical critiques Except that they explore social aspects of biblical issues that have traditionally been analyzed from a theological point of view. Others explicitly call their work Social scientific, indicating that they self consciously appropriate concepts and models from sociology and anthropology and attempt to explain ancient Israelite and early Christian development by use of those models. Still others resist the label of sociologist or social historian , and prefer to characterize their work as cultural anthropology or ethnography of ancient Israel and early Christianity. Social scientific will use all to interpret early Christian literature and history through categories borrowed through the social sciences sociology and anthropo...