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The changing shape of form criticism : a relational approach /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buss, Martin J.
Other Authors: Stipe, Nickie M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010.
Series:Hebrew Bible monographs ; 18.
Subjects:
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible > Criticism, Form.
Table of 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.