num_pages: 176
description: This book gives a clearly written, authoritative introduction to social-scientific criticism of the New Testament, including the rise of this method, its practitioners and the focal points of their work, how the method is applied to the interpretation of the biblical text, and the presuppositions and procedures of the method. Four appendices; glossary; two bibliographies.
language: English
title: What Is Social-Scientific Criticism?
titlecomplete: What Is Social-Scientific Criticism? (Guides to Biblical Scholarship New Testament)
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Fortress Press