How Scholars Study the New Testament Flashcards
What approach to the New Testament focuses studies manuscripts?
Textual Criticism
What approach to the New Testament is interested in variant readings?
Textual Criticism
What approach to the New Testament attempts to reconstruct the original text?
Textual Criticism
What approach to the New Testament is interested in the material evidence from the ancient world?
Archaeology
What approach to the New Testament supplies important background information about the life, times, and places of the first century world based on discoveries?
Archaeology
What approach to the New Testament uses methods of study derived from the social sciences?
Sociological Criticism
What approach to the New Testament is interested in the effect of Jewish migrations, military occupation of Palestine, and ancient economic systems?
Sociological Criticism
What approach to the New Testament is interested in the comparison of cultures?
Cultural Anthropology
What approach to the New Testament is interested in kinship relations, gender roles, and educational strategies?
Cultural Anthropology
What approach to the New Testament is interested in the specifics of the lives of people in the New Testament and the events recorded in it?
Historical Criticism
What approach to the New Testament looks at the text as a document that provides a window into an important period of Middle Eastern and European history?
Historical Criticism
What approach to the New Testament is interested in the pre-existing oral and written materials that the authors used to put their books together?
Source Criticism
What approach is interested in classifying the genres of the different materials in the New Testament?
Form Criticism
What approach to the New Testament wants to understand the historical setting (Sitz im Leben) of the different literary components found in the individual books?
Form Criticism
What approach to the New Testament is interested in identifying parables, genealogies, miracle stories, speeches, creeds, etc.?
Form Criticism