Social-scientific Old Testament Criticism

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Social-scientific Old Testament Criticism is written by David J. Chalcraft and published by A&C Black. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1850758131 (ISBN 10) and 9781850758136 (ISBN 13).

Collected here in one volume are the best examples of social-scientific Old Testament criticism from the last 20 years of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, an essential introduction to the field. Divided into six sections, this volume presents essays on the central methodological and theoretical issues as well as a series of applications to the study of early Israelite social forms, the formal and informal regulation of life, the distribution of power and justice, and the performance of social roles and the process of group formation. The volume brings home how indispensable a social-science approach is for the reconstruction of the Israelite social world-not to say our own worlds and productions as well, enbodying the finest traditions of classical social theory and the interface with exciting new developments.