Semeia 21: Anthropological Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy
Overview
Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted.
- Key perspectives on biblical criticism
- Includes bibliographies and index
Top Highlights
“One issue is the problem of method, that is, the question of how to do cross-disciplinary study. How should biblical scholars in a responsible way make use of work done in another discipline such that not only biblical scholars but also scholars in the other discipline in question, say anthropology, will take seriously what is being done?” (Page 3)
“Even if what is actually happening is that the unknown is being squeezed into the familiar, so that what is in fact unknown can seem to be known, there is a very real sense of avenues of understanding opening up.” (Page 101)
“Another issue has to do with the nature of the social sciences and what kind of perspectives they bring. In other words, how may they be used in biblical studies?” (Page 3)
“The tendency has been to compare literature with literature, within the Bible or outside it, before relating texts to social settings.” (Page 4)
- Kenelm O. L. Burridge
- Martin J. Buss
- Robert C. Culley
- Norman K. Gottwald
- Ioan M. Lewis
- Burke O. Long
- Thomas W. Overholt
- Robert R. Wilson
- Title: Semeia 21: Anthropological Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy
- Editors: Robert C. Culley and Thomas W. Overholt
- Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
- Publication Date: 1981
- Pages: 136
