The interpretation of text in the light of its socio-cultural setting
Setting can attribute considerably to the understanding of texts, provided that the subjective nature of its reconstruction is recognized. This subjectivity is the result of cognitive processes at work in the reconstruction of settings. As a result, it becomes important for the scholarly dialogue to...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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NTWSA
1984
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| In: |
Neotestamentica
Year: 1984, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 66-79 |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Socio-cultural analysis B Political context B Sociology B Setting B Objective history B Christianity B Raw evidence B Communication |
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| Summary: | Setting can attribute considerably to the understanding of texts, provided that the subjective nature of its reconstruction is recognized. This subjectivity is the result of cognitive processes at work in the reconstruction of settings. As a result, it becomes important for the scholarly dialogue to discuss explicitly the presuppositions (and their consequences) operative in exegesis. It is further necessary to allocate to the text its proper directive function in determining setting. In this regard a distinction can be made between autonomous and heteronomous texts, although all texts are a precipitate of processes and events in society. A study of society would consequently illuminate texts emanating from it. The sociology of knowledge seems to be a fitting method for the study of a text in the light of its setting. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/AJA2548356_180 |