Theology on the Web helps over 2.5 million people every year to find high quality theological resources that will help to equip them to serve God and to know Him better (2 Timothy 2:15). Like other websites that provide free services, it is dependent on donations to enable it to grow and develop and only 0.004% of visitors currently do so. If you would like to support this site, please use one of the options to the right of this message.

Home Bible Criticism › Social-Scientific Criticism


On-line Resource Kenneth Berding, "The Hermeneutical Framework of Social-Scientific Criticism: How much can Evangelicals get involved?" The Evangelical Quarterly 75.1 (Jan-Mar. 2003): 3-22. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource P.F. Craffert, "The origins of resurrection faith: the challenge of a social scientific approach," Neotestamentica 23.2 (1989): 331-348.View in PDF format pdf
Article in Journal or Book David A. DeSilva, "Embodying the Word: Social-Scientific Interpretation of the New Testament" in Scot McKnight and Grant R. Osborne (ed.) The Face of New Testament Studies: A Survey of Recent Research. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004.
Article in Journal or Book J.H. Elliott, "Social-Scientific Criticism of the New Testament: More on Methods and Models," Semeia 35 (1986): 1-33.
Article in Journal or Book J.H. Elliott, "Social scientific criticism: Perspective, process and payoff. Evil eye accusation at Galatia as illustration of the method," HTS Teologiese Studies 67.1 (2011): 1-10.
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Philip F. Esler, The First Christians in their social worldsPhilip F. Esler, The First Christians in their social worlds: social scientific approaches to New Testament interpretation. London: Taylor & Francis, 2002. ISBN: 9781134833801. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
Article in Journal or Book Paul A. Himes, "First Peter's Identity Theology and the Community of Faith: a test-case in how social scientific criticism can assist with theological ethics via biblical theology," The Evangelical Quarterly 89.2 (April 2018): 115-132.
Book or monograph Bruce J. Malina, "Social-Scientific Approaches and the Gospel of Matthew" in Mark Allan Powell (ed.) Methods for Matthew. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Article in Journal or Book Carolyn Osiek, "The New Handmaid: The Bible and Social Sciences" Theological Studies 50 (1989): 260-278.
Article in Journal or Book Jerome H. Neyrey, "God, Benefactor and Patron: The Major Cultural Model for Interpreting the Deity in Greco-Roman Antiquity" Journal for the Study of the New Testament 27.4 (2005): 465-492.
Article in Journal or Book Donald Senior, "Friend or foe?: the historical-critical method," The Priest 70.4 (April 2014): 35-39, 51-52.

Bibliography based on that provided by Pastor Lijo Devadhas, Chennai, India

Related Subjects

CANONICAL CRITICISM | DISCOURSE CRITICISM | DOCUMENTARY HYPOTHESIS | FORM CRITICISM | LITERARY CRITICISM | REDACTION CRITICISM | RHETORICAL CRITICISM | TEXTUAL CRITICISM

ATLASES | AUTHORITY | ARCHAEOLOGY | BACKGROUND | CANON | CRITICISM | INERRANCY | INSPIRATION | INTERPRETATION | LANGUAGES | TRANSLATION
ABOUT | HOSTED ARTICLES, etc.| SITE MAP | INTRODUCTIONS | THE BIBLE | OLD TESTAMENT | NEW TESTAMENT | PEOPLE | BOOK LINKS | STUDY AIDS | SITE BLOG | ABBREVIATIONS | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | SUPPORT THIS SITE | CONTACT
TheologicalStudies.org.uk  
EarlyChurch.org.uk
MedievalChurch.org.uk