How Scholars Study the New Testament Flashcards

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What approach to the New Testament focuses studies manuscripts?

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Textual Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament is interested in variant readings?

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Textual Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament attempts to reconstruct the original text?

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Textual Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament is interested in the material evidence from the ancient world?

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Archaeology

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What approach to the New Testament supplies important background information about the life, times, and places of the first century world based on discoveries?

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Archaeology

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What approach to the New Testament uses methods of study derived from the social sciences?

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Sociological Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament is interested in the effect of Jewish migrations, military occupation of Palestine, and ancient economic systems?

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Sociological Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament is interested in the comparison of cultures?

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Cultural Anthropology

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What approach to the New Testament is interested in kinship relations, gender roles, and educational strategies?

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Cultural Anthropology

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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?

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Historical Criticism

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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?

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Historical Criticism

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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?

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Source Criticism

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What approach is interested in classifying the genres of the different materials in the New Testament?

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Form Criticism

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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?

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Form Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament is interested in identifying parables, genealogies, miracle stories, speeches, creeds, etc.?

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Form Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament is interested in how authors arranged and edited their sources?

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Redaction Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament employs composition analysis and emendation analysis?

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Redaction Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament draws upon the insights of modern literary analysis?

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Narrative Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament focuses on how readers are expected to be impacted by each book?

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Narrative Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament studies strategies used by biblical writers to make a particular point?

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Rhetorical Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament is interested in polyvalence?

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Reader-Response Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament examines how people understand the biblical text differently?

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Reader-Response Criticism

23
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Feminist readings of scripture belong to what field of New Testament study?

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Ideological Criticism

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Postcolonial Criticism is one of many different types of New Testament approaches found in what field of study?

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Ideological Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament applies insights from the marginalized and oppressed in order to raise interpretive questions missed by interpreters of privilege?

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Ideological Criticism

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What approach to the New Testament is often considered the most extreme?

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Deconstruction

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What approach to the New Testament focuses more on the assumptions of the reader rather than the meaning of the text?

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Deconstruction

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What approach to the New Testament seeks to demonstrate that all interpretations are human constructs with no objective claim to legitimacy?

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Deconstruction