Short description: A thoroughly revised comprehensive guide to basic terms and concepts used in biblical criticism.
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Soulen is Professor of New Testament Studies at the School of Theology, Virginia Union University.
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All the Biblical Criticism Stuff You Could Ever Define,
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This review is from: Handbook of Biblical Criticism (Paperback)
This handbook is a good tool any student of Biblical criticism will want. It offers definitions, histories and other information concerning important figures and terms in Biblical criticism. Whether you want to look up B. H. Streeter or KJV or Heilsgeschichte or anything else related to Biblical criticism, you can find it in this book.
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Useful but not all inclusive,
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This review is from: Handbook of Biblical Criticism: Third Edition, Revised and Expanded (Paperback)
This is a very handy little book for anyone interested in biblical studies. It's set up in alphabetical order, from acrostic and advocacy criticism to Walther Zimmerli and zweiquellentheorie, the two source theory. Want to know what 'mashal' means in biblical studies? It's all right here, in an easy to use format. This is especially useful for people who may not be familiar with German terms, for biblical scholarship for centuries has been dominated by German scholars. So if you come across "religionsgeschichtliche schule" it's a mention of the old History of religions theory.One small caveat: it doesn't include the most modern scholarship.
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It's been said that a lexicographer (someone who writes a dictionary) does not seek praise; rather, she or he merely hopes to avoid criticism. This is because we all have a sense of how a dictionary 'should' be and how it 'should' read: Concise, authoritative, clear, comprehensive... It should have examples, sub sections, word parts - we expect it all to just "be there", nicely laid out and impeccably researched. When it is, we nod. When it isn't, we whine.Well, this book delivers very well on all counts, so I for one say it deserves praise - because dictionaries that are this well researched and laid out don't just appear! They must take a lot of work, and the evidence is in the punchiness, clarity and authoritative way that the entires here come across. It defines all of the major approaches to biblical scholarship (such as narrative criticism and feminist criticism) and lots of more obscure stuff as well. Many of the entries give a kind of chronology of how each field came about, and how it has developed. Most of the major 'players' in the field (like Gunkel) gets bibliographic entries, as do lots of technical terms - a welcome addition. This is a very useful book for seminary students, although I imagine it would really 'come into its own' for graduate study such as exegetical dissertations. It's when you really need to 'deploy' the tools yourself that the guides, overviews and 'map points' that this book gives you are really useful. My criticisms are minor. Some entries (such a Reader-response criticism) acknowledge that they encompass a 'spectrum' of positions, but do not enumerate what the major sub-sections are (eg, performative and dialogical approaches). A small number of Bible translations have brief entries - I reckon a wider range should have been included, or none at all. But these quibbles are minor, and the fold-out diagram at the back is just delicious and makes me really glad I have this book!
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Acrostic A series of lines or verses whose initial, final, or other identifiable letters form a word, a phrase, the initial letters of a phrase, or the alphabet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postcritical biblical interpretation, biblical cultural criticism, psychological biblical criticism, postcolonial biblical interpretation, womanist biblical interpretation, postmodern biblical interpretation, modem biblical criticism, dialogical hermeneutics, advocacy criticism, feminist biblical interpretation, canonical criticism, audience criticism, apodictic law, biblical theology movement, world behind the text, narrative criticism, redaction criticism, casuistic law, modern biblical criticism, sensus plenior, pronouncement story, synoptic problem, synthetic parallelism, ideological criticism, form criticism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Fortress Press, Old Testament, New Testament, Grand Rapids, Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew Bible, Scholars Press, John Knox Press, New Hermeneutic, Oxford University Press, Abingdon Press, Roman Catholic, Westminster Press, Rhetorical Analysis, Nag Hammadi, Charles Scribner's Sons, Clarendon Press, San Francisco, Cambridge University Press, Old Latin, Textus Receptus, New Haven, Sheffield Academic Press, University of Chicago Press New!
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Acrostic A series of lines or verses whose initial, final, or other identifiable letters form a word, a phrase, the initial letters of a phrase, or the alphabet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postcritical biblical interpretation, biblical cultural criticism, psychological biblical criticism, postcolonial biblical interpretation, womanist biblical interpretation, postmodern biblical interpretation, modem biblical criticism, dialogical hermeneutics, advocacy criticism, feminist biblical interpretation, canonical criticism, audience criticism, apodictic law, biblical theology movement, world behind the text, narrative criticism, redaction criticism, casuistic law, modern biblical criticism, sensus plenior, pronouncement story, synoptic problem, synthetic parallelism, ideological criticism, form criticism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Fortress Press, Old Testament, New Testament, Grand Rapids, Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew Bible, Scholars Press, John Knox Press, New Hermeneutic, Oxford University Press, Abingdon Press, Roman Catholic, Westminster Press, Rhetorical Analysis, Nag Hammadi, Charles Scribner's Sons, Clarendon Press, San Francisco, Cambridge University Press, Old Latin, Textus Receptus, New Haven, Sheffield Academic Press, University of Chicago Press New!
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- Old And New Testaments (Brittingham Prize in Poetry) by Lynn C. Powell on 4 pages
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- Searching the Scriptures: A Feminist Commentary v. 2 by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza on 4 pages
- Praise and Lament in the Psalms by Claus Westermann on page 98, page 147, and page 207
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- Inerrancy by Norman L. Geisler on page 93, and Back Matter
- Introduction to the Old Testament Historical Books by David Howard on page 25, and Back Matter
- Concise Dictionary of Bible Origins and Interpretation by Alec Gilmore in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Psalms (Interpretation Bible Studies) by Jerome F. D. Creach on page 9, and page 20
- The Letters of Paul: An Introdution (Good News Studies) by Charles B. Puskas on page 12, and Back Matter
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