This volume brings together ten essays on the various contexts for
texts that social-scientific approaches invoke. These contexts are:
the cultural values that inform the writers of texts, the
relationship between the text and the reader or community of
readers, and the production of texts themselves as social
artifacts. In the first, predominantly theoretical, section of the
book, John Rogerson applies the perspective of Adorno to the
reading of biblical texts; Mark Brett advocates methodological
pluralism and deconstructs ethnicity in Genesis; and Gerald West
explores the 'graininess' of texts. The second part contains both
theory and application: Jonathan Dyck draws a 'map of ideology' for
biblical critics and then applies an ideological critical analysis
to Ezra 2. M. Daniel Carroll R. reexamines 'popular religion' and
uses Amos as a test case; Stanley Porter considers dialect and
register in the Greek of the New Testament, then applies it to
Mark's Gospel. This is an original as well as wide-ranging
exploration of important social-scientific issues and their
application to a range of biblical materials.>
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