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
What approach to the New Testament is interested in how authors arranged and edited their sources?
Redaction Criticism
What approach to the New Testament employs composition analysis and emendation analysis?
Redaction Criticism
What approach to the New Testament draws upon the insights of modern literary analysis?
Narrative Criticism
What approach to the New Testament focuses on how readers are expected to be impacted by each book?
Narrative Criticism
What approach to the New Testament studies strategies used by biblical writers to make a particular point?
Rhetorical Criticism
What approach to the New Testament is interested in polyvalence?
Reader-Response Criticism
What approach to the New Testament examines how people understand the biblical text differently?
Reader-Response Criticism
Feminist readings of scripture belong to what field of New Testament study?
Ideological Criticism
Postcolonial Criticism is one of many different types of New Testament approaches found in what field of study?
Ideological Criticism
What approach to the New Testament applies insights from the marginalized and oppressed in order to raise interpretive questions missed by interpreters of privilege?
Ideological Criticism
What approach to the New Testament is often considered the most extreme?
Deconstruction
What approach to the New Testament focuses more on the assumptions of the reader rather than the meaning of the text?
Deconstruction
What approach to the New Testament seeks to demonstrate that all interpretations are human constructs with no objective claim to legitimacy?
Deconstruction
