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The changing shape of form criticism : a relational approach / Martin J. Buss; edited by Nickie M. Stipe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buss, Martin J.
- Series:
- Hebrew Bible monographs ; 18.
- Hebrew Bible monographs ; 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible--Criticism, Form.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 340 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield, England : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Part I. Essays toward relational form criticism
- The meaning of 'cult' and the interpretation of the Old Testament
- Form criticism and morphological method
- Appropriate and not-so-appropriate ways of relating historical and functional methods : a draft
- The idea of Sitz im Leben
- Understanding communication
- Principles for morphological criticism with special reference to letter form
- The notion of 'aptness'
- Form criticism : an introduction
- Form criticism : Hebrew Bible
- Toward form criticism as an explication of human life : divine speech as a form of self-transcendence
- Part II. Interdisciplinary ideas of Sitz im Leben
- Interdisciplinary movements
- Gunkel's concept of Sitz im Leben in biblical studies
- In Gunkel's cultural sphere : Simmel, Bally
- Key English-language analyses of speech situations prior to 1960
- The Bakhtin circle
- Other East European and Marxist considerations of context
- Wittgenstein
- Other philosophers
- Some twentieth-century theories of situation in rhetorical and literary theory
- Situation in English-language sociology and psychology
- Discourse analysis and sociolinguistics after 1950
- Speech contexts in anthropology, especially folklore studies, after 1960
- Developments in biblical form criticism after about 1965
- Renewed concern with life situation in European Medieval studies
- New attention to life situation in classics, especially after 1970
- Assessment
- Concluding reflections concerning relational form criticism
- Part III. Appendix
- Relational form in various disciplines
- A common pattern
- Mathematics, physics, biology
- Anthropology
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Lingustics
- Rhetoric, or discourse analysis
- Literary criticism
- Historiography
- Theology and the study of religion
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-325) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1906055548
- 9781906055547
- OCLC:
- 226166241
- Publisher Number:
- 99949627300
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