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Ancient Israel: The Old Testament in Its Social Context

The Old Testament in Its Social Context

by Philip Francis Esler

  • Paperback
  • 440 pages
  • Publisher: SCM
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

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The book begins by providing a brief history and overview of social scientific analysis of the Old Testament, to bring the reader up to speed with the current scholarship. The remaining chapters are divided into three parts. The first part of the book, chapters 3-9, apply social-scientific models to general issues in Old Testament research, issues such as tribalism, polygamy, rituals and in particular sacrifice, the practice of exchange and the acquisition of wealth in the biblical world. Three models of patron and client, limited wealth, and honour and shame are used. The second part, chapters 10-16, apply social-scientific models to particular texts, including Micah 1-3 and Micah 6: 9-15 on economic states, the use of euphemisms for male genetalia in Deuteronomy 25: 11-12 using cross-cultural sociolinguistc research, the sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter is examined in an honour and shame framework, examining Judges 10 to 11, and in 2 Samuels 10-13, the social dynamic of challenge and response is examined in relation to David's sacking of Rabbah.;Chapter 14 looks at Ezekiel and the call to be a prophet, and uses the social-scientific disciplines of cultural anthropology and cognitive neuroscience to analyse the call, to better understand and appreciate this event. Symbols of war are examined in the final chapter in this part, in Maccabees 1, applying anthropological theories of war. The third part of the book, chapters 18-20, focuses on hermeneutical issues, looking first at psychological interpretations, then identity theory and political interpretations and finally at the role of social sciences as a whole in biblical interpretation.
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Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts: The Social and Political Motivations of Lucan TheologyAncient Israel: The Old Testament in Its Social Context

  • Author

    Philip Francis Esler

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    SCM

  • Published

    October 2005

  • Weight

    613g

  • Page Count

    440

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780334040170

  • ISBN-10

    0334040175

  • Eden Code

    111102

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