RT Article
T1 Anthropological and socio-historical readings of the Old Testament
JF Old Testament essays
VO 7
IS 4
SP 160
OP 166
A1 Domeris, William
LA English
YR 1994
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1929706049
AB Special Edition: Understanding the Old Testament in South Africa. The use of anthropological and sociological models for the study of the Old Testament represents one of the most interesting trends in contemporary research. The approaches vary widely, from the Marxist analysis of Gottwald to the purity codes of Mary Douglas, yet are united in one aim  to understand the Bible in its context. This paper surveys some of these trends, including the sociology of the monarchy, the studies of the prophetic period and the anthropological studies of the Law Codes. We conclude that this method of research has opened up a number of new perspectives on Old Testament study, which need to be further developed.
K1 Anthropological models
K1 Biblical literary criticism
K1 Law Codes
K1 Marxist Gottwald
K1 Marxist methodologies
K1 Period of judges
K1 Prophetic period
K1 Purity codes of Mary Douglas
K1 Reign of Solomon
K1 Socio-historical readings
K1 Sociology of the monarchy