Socio-Cultural Context of the Bible SzD-NT-SKB
The specialist lecture course aims to familiarise doctoral students with contemporary scholarship on selected issues relating to significant phenomena shared by the cultures in which the Bible developed, namely those of the Mediterranean basin and the Middle East, where the biblical text originated. Knowledge of the socio-cultural context is as important as that of the historical and political context when interpreting the biblical text. The use of research tools employed in sociology and cultural anthropology has made it possible to identify certain common values shared by communities from the various cultures within the Bible’s cultural milieu.
Students become familiar with the key values operating in these cultures and the mechanisms governing them, which found significant expression in the biblical text, including agonism and antagonism in social relations, patron–client relationships, the importance of kinship and friendship in social life, the honour–shame criterion, the concept of limited good, charity and grace, and social gender roles.
Doctoral students acquire the necessary knowledge in this field and become familiar with important paradigms in biblical studies. Through independent reading and classroom discussions, they develop the ability to explain the cultural code embedded in the biblical text, which often poses a barrier to contemporary readers’ understanding of biblical texts, to present these issues synthetically, and to relate them to the dilemmas faced by people today.
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Literatura
Burge G. M, Green G. L, The New Testament in Antiquity, 2nd ed., A Survey of the New Testament within Its Cultural Context, Zondervan 2020.
Craffert P.F., Towards an Interdisciplinary Definition of the Social-Scientific Interpretation of the New Testament, Neotestamentica 25/1 (1991) 123-144.
De Silva D., Honor, Patronage, Kinship and Purity. Unlocking New Testament Culture, Downers Grove 2000.
Edwards O.C., Sociology as a Tool for Interpreting the New Testament, Anglican Theological Review 65: 431-448.
Ferguson E., Backgrounds of Early Christianity, Eerdmans 1987 (and next eds.).
Leach E., Anthropological Approaches to the Study of the Bible during the Twentieth Century, in: Humanizing America’s Iconic Book: SBL Centennial Addresses 1980, Chico, 73-94.
Malina B., Christian Origins and Cultural Anthropology. Practical Models for Biblical Interpretation, Eugene 2010 (or earlier eds.).
Malina B., The New Testament World. Insights from Cultural Anthropology, 3rd ed., John Knox Press 2001.
Neufeld D., DeMaris R., Understanding the Social World of the New Testament, Routledge: London-New York 2010.
Neyrey J.H., Stewart E.C., The Social World of the New Testament. Insights and Models, Peabody 2008.
Pilch John J., Social Scientific Models for Interpreting the Bible, Brill 2001.
Robbins V., Explore the Texture of Texts. A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation, Harrisburg: Bloomsbury Academic 1996.
Stambauh J.E., Balch D.L, The New Testament in Its Social Environment, Philadelphia 1986.
Trebilco P., Self-Designations and Group Identity in the New Testament, Cambridge University Press 2012.
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