The changing shape of form criticism
Subtitle: a relational approach
By: Martin J. Buss ; edited by Nickie M. Stipe
Contributors: Stipe, Nickie M.
Series: Hebrew Bible monographs -- 18; Hebrew Bible monographs -- 18.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sheffield, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781906055547
Subjects: Bible; Form Criticism; Criticism, interpretation; Bibel; Methode; Hermeneutics; Formgeschichte
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-325) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Essays toward relational form criticism; title: The meaning of 'cult' and the interpretation of the Old Testament; title: Form criticism and morphological method; title: Appropriate and not-so-appropriate ways of relating historical and functional methods : a draft; title: The idea of Sitz im Leben; title: Understanding communication; title: Principles for morphological criticism with special reference to letter form; title: The notion of 'aptness'; title: Form criticism : an introduction; title: Form criticism : Hebrew Bible; title: Toward form criticism as an explication of human life : divine speech as a form of self-transcendence; title: Part II. Interdisciplinary ideas of Sitz im Leben; title: Interdisciplinary movements; title: Gunkel's concept of Sitz im Leben in biblical studies; title: In Gunkel's cultural sphere : Simmel, Bally; title: Key English-language analyses of speech situations prior to 1960; title: The Bakhtin circle; title: Other East European and Marxist considerations of context; title: Wittgenstein; title: Other philosophers; title: Some twentieth-century theories of situation in rhetorical and literary theory; title: Situation in English-language sociology and psychology; title: Discourse analysis and sociolinguistics after 1950; title: Speech contexts in anthropology, especially folklore studies, after 1960; title: Developments in biblical form criticism after about 1965; title: Renewed concern with life situation in European Medieval studies; title: New attention to life situation in classics, especially after 1970; title: Assessment; title: Concluding reflections concerning relational form criticism; title: Part III. Appendix; title: Relational form in various disciplines; title: A common pattern; title: Mathematics, physics, biology; title: Anthropology; title: Sociology; title: Psychology; title: Lingustics; title: Rhetoric, or discourse analysis; title: Literary criticism; title: Historiography; title: Theology and the study of religion; title: Conclusion.