Sociālās Zinātnes Un Bībele: Sociālās Identitātes Teorija Un Kalna Sprediķa Svētības: Social sciences and the Bible: Social identity theory and the Beatitudes.
This article is written as an introduction to a social sciences’ approach to the Biblical text. It starts with a short introduction on the beginnings of this approach in New Testament studies and how it has developed in two general directions: social historical description and social scientific anal...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Latvian |
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LU Akadēmiskais apgāds
2021
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Cel̜š
Year: 2021, Issue: 72, Pages: 158-169 |
| Further subjects: | B
Social Criticism
B Bible. New Testament B Group Identity B Shame B Bible B Individualism B Primitive & early church, ca. 30-600 B Social norms |
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| Summary: | This article is written as an introduction to a social sciences’ approach to the Biblical text. It starts with a short introduction on the beginnings of this approach in New Testament studies and how it has developed in two general directions: social historical description and social scientific analysis. The author explains the differences between these two extremes on the spectrum of the social scientific approach (or "social scientific criticism") to the Bible and draws examples from the Matthean Beatitudes (Mt. 5:3-12) to illustrate them. On the one hand, the wording of the Beatitudes reflects their cultural context of the Mediterranean concept of honour and shame. On the other hand, this text can be understood as an outline of group norms for the Matthean community in terms of social identity theory. The author concludes the article by outlining some benefits yielded by the application of the social scientific approach to the Bible and the Matthean Beatitudes in particular. The social science approach provides the interpreter with a fresh insight into the world of the first Christian communities, challenging the Western individualism that sometimes has been applied to the Biblical text too hastily. This approach also provides modern Christians with well-explained community models of early Christian groups, so that the contemporary readers can choose to either imitate or modify them in their own communities. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cel̜š
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.22364/cl.72.09 |